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THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY" 
OF  CALIFORNIA 

LOS  ANGELES 

Ex  Libris 

Katharine  F.  Richmond 

and 
Henry  C.  Fall 


DOVER,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE, 

ITS  HISTORY  AND  INDUSTRIES 


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ILLUSTRATED    SOUVENIR 


IN    COMMEMORATION    OF    THE 


TWENTY  -  nrm   ANNIVERSARY 


OF 


FOSTER'S  DAILY  DEMOCRAT 


DESCRIPTIVE  OP  THE  CITY  7WD  ITS  MANUFACTURING 
AND  BUSINESS  INTERESTS. 


COMPILED  BY  A.  C.  0.  NYE. 


CONTAINING : 

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Picturesque    Scenes ;    Comfortable    Homes ;    Portraits   and    Biographical    Sketches  of 
Active    Men;    Men    noted    in  Public,    Business   and    Professional    Life; 
Its  Manufacturing  and  Commerce  ;   Statements  of   Resources 
and  Advantages  of  Locality;  Its  Growth,  Pros- 
perity  and    Future    Possibilities. 


PUBLISHED    BY 
GEO.  J.  POSTER  &  CO. 

1695. 


Ifntrobuctioru 


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different  in  character  frorn  anything  ever 
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Publishers. 


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1623... 


ON  a  spring  day  in  1623,  a  vessel, 
name  of  which  is  now  lost,  landed 
upon  the  western  shore  of  the  Piscata- 
qua,  two  parties  sent  out  by  the  company 
of  Laconia.  One  party,  consisting  of  Ed- 
ward and  William  Hilton  (brothers),  with 
a  few  other  persons,  took  possession  of 


"*1898 


Possibly  other  settlers  came  over  in  the 
years  immediately  following  1623  ;  but,  in 
1631,  there  were  only  three  houses  in  all 
that  part  of  the  Piscataqua.  In  that  year 
Captain  Thomas  VViggin  was  sent  over  by 
the  patentees;  in  1632  he  returned  to 
England,  and  in  1633  he  came  back  with 


THE   CITY    HALL. 


the  beautiful  neck  of  land  lying  between 
the  Newichawannock  and  Bellamy  rivers, 
some  six  miles  up  the  Piscataqua ;  and, 
with  the  necessaries  which  they  had  brought 
with  them,  began  the  settlement,  which,  in 

1639,  received   the  name  of    Dover;  in 

1640,  that  of  Northam  ;  and,  in  1641,  that 
of  Dover  again,  which  it  has  since  borne. 


"  about  thirty  settlers,"  some  of  whom 
were  "  of  good  estate  and  some  account 
for  religion,"  and  others  of  no  particular 
account  for  either.  These  settlers,  land- 
ing at  Salem,  from  the  ship  fatties,  Octo- 
ber 10,  1633,  proceeded  immediately  to 
Dover,  and  took  up  small  lots  upon  Dover 
Neck,  "  where  they  intended  to  build  a 


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compact  town."  Captain  Wiggin,  by 
authority  from  the  owners  in  England, 
distributed  these  lots,  recorded  the  titles, 
transacted  the  com- 
pany's business  gen- 
erally, and  "  had 
the  power  of  a  gov- 
ernor hereabouts." 
In  the  same  band 
came  Rev.  William 
-  Leverich,  "  an  able 
and  worthy  Puritan 
minister."  The  in- 
habitants immedi- 
a  t  e  1  y  erected  a 
REV.  HANSERD  KNOLLYS.  meeting-  house  ; 


trading  post.  He  himself  became  major, 
commander  of  the  New  Hampshire  forces, 
counsellor,  acting  president  of  the  prov- 
ince, chief  justice,  representative,  and 
speaker  of  the  Massachusetts  general 
court. 

From  1633  to  1641,  Dover,  although 
increasing  in  population,  experienced  a 
succession  of  troubles.  The  original  set- 
tlers were  Episcopalians;  those  of  1633 
Puritans.  To  these  discordant  elements 
was  added  the  bad  character  of  some  men, 
who,  forced  to  leave  Massachusetts,  ac- 
quired influence  in  this  loose  society.  The 
ill  results  soon  appeared.  Mr.  Leverich 
was  forced  to  leave  in  1635  for  want  of 


DOVER,  FROM  THE  SITE  OF  FIRST  MEETING  HOUSE. 


and,  with  the  tan  pits,  and  other  means 
of  practical  crafts  which  soon  followed, 
Dover  began  its  organized  existence. 

In  addition  to  the  original  purposes  of 
the  settlement  (fishing),  trade  with  the 
Indians  and  the  manufacture  of  lumber 
soon  followed.  Both  of  these  were  mainly 
in  connection  with  the  settlement  of  Rich- 
ard Walderne  (whose  descendants  bear 
the  name  of  Waldron),  in  1640,  or  a  little 
earlier,  at  the  lower  falls  of  the  Cochecho, 
where  the  compact  part  of  the  present 
city  of  Dover  stands.  He  built  a  saw- 
mill, and  soon  after  a  grist-mill ;  and,  for 
half  a  century,  his  house  was  a  frontier 


support.     Rev.  George  Burdett,  who  suc- 
ceeded him  in  1637,  was  able,  ambitious, 
unscrupulous,  and  profligate ;   but,  before 
his   character    be- 
came   known,    he 
prevailed  upon  the 
people     to     make 
him  governor  ;  but, 
soon  exposing  him- 
self,    he     fled    to 
Agamenticus.       In 
the  ministry  he  was 
succeeded    by 
Hanserd     Knollys, 
a  good  and  pious      DR>  JEREMY  BELKNAP. 


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man  ;  and  by  him  the  first  church  in  Dover 
was  organized,  in  December,  1638.  The 
first  meeting-house  in  Dover  was  erected 
in  1634  or  earlier,  and  stcod  near  the 
Beck  Cove,  on  the  western  slope  of  the 
Neck.  The  second  was  built  on  the  spot 
where  the  remnant  of  the  fortifications 
once  around  it  still  remains.  This  house 
was  standing  in  a  ruinous  state  in  1720. 
The  second  meeting-house  was  probably 
built  a  little  after  the  year  1700,  for 
Mr.  Sever,  who  was  settled  in  1711,  and 
dismissed  in  1715,  preached  in  both 


The  remainder  of  the  house  was  subse- 
quently taken  down.  The  fourth  and 
present  meeting-house  was  erected  in 
1829,  and  cost  about  $12,000.  The  par- 
ish was  incorporated  as  a  parish  district 
from  the  town  by  an  act  of  the  Provincial 
Assembly. 

Jeremy  Belknap  D.D.,  eleventh  min- 
ister, was  distinguished  for  his  literary  at- 
tainments and  beloved  for  his  personal 
character.  He  was  an  ardent  patriot  in 
the  Revolution,  and  by  his  writings  and 
correspondence  did  eminent  service.  He 


WHITCHER'S  FALLS  ON  COCHECO  RIVER. 


houses.  This  house  was  sold  in  1759  and 
taken  down  the  following  year.  It  stood 
on  Pine  Hill,  on  land  now  inclosed  in  the 
burying-ground,  very  near  its  northern 
boundary,  and  a  little  west  of  north  of  the 
tomb  of  the  Gushing  family.  The  third 
edifice  erected  in  1758,  stood  where 
the  present  house  stands.  In  1829, 
the  parish  voted  to  sell  the  old  meeting- 
house. The  northern  end  was  taken  off 
and  converted  by  the  purchaser  into  a 
dwelling  house,  and  now  stands  on  the 
east  side  of  Court  Street,  near  the  brook. 


published  numerous  works,  the  best  known 
of  which  is  his  "  History  of  New  Hamp- 
shire." 

In  civil  office  Burdett  was  followed  by 
Captain  John  Underbill,  an  old  Euro- 
pean soldier  and  a  refugee  from  Mass- 
achusetts, having  a  strange  mixture  of 
enthusiasm,  ability,  and  hypocrisy.  Un- 
derhill  was  deposed  in  1640  for  various 
crimes.  Knollys  was  eclipsed  by  the  su- 
perior talents  of  Thomas  Larkham,  an 
emigrant  of  1639  or  1640,  and  forced  to 
yield.  The  discordant  elements  now 


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broke  out  into  disgraceful  contests,  ended 
at  last  by  the  union  of  Dover  with  Massa- 
chusetts, Oct.  9,  1641,  which  the  better 


BLOODY  POINT. 

part  of  the  people  adopted  as  the  only 
cure  for  their  difficulties.  It  was  gladly 
welcomed  by  the  latter  power,  who,  in- 
deed, claimed  a  latent  right  to  the  terri- 
tory by  virtue  of  their  own  patent.  The 
town  was  made  part  of  old  Norfolk  coun- 
ty, was  represented  in  the  general 
court,  and  was  subject  to  the  laws  of 
Massachusetts  until  New  Hampshire, 
in  1679,  was  erected  into  a  separate 
province. 

From  1641  to  1679  Dover  had  gen- 
erally peace,  ecclesiastically  and  civ- 
illy. The  Massachusetts  government 
bore  lightly,  and  the  clergymen  were 
able  and  excellent  men.  The  only  jar 
in  religious  matters  was  that  caused  by 
the  coming  of  Quakerism,  in  1662, 
and  the  barbarous  sentence  upon 
women  of  ten  lashes  upon  the  naked 
back.  Of  course  Quakerism  flourished 
with  greater  vigor  in  Dover  than  in 
any  other  town  in  the  province.  In 
business  the  town  increased,  having  a 
direct  trade  with  the  West  Indies,  ex- 
porting principally  lumber.  In  pop- 
ulation it  gained  rapidly  for  a  time ; 
the  tax-paying  males  increasing  from 
54  in  1648  to  142  in  1659,  and  155 
in  1 668.  It  then  experienced  a  check, 
falling  to  146  in  1675,  doubtless  on 
account  of  the  Indian  wars.  In  terri- 


tory it  embraced,  in  addition  to  its  present 
limits,  Durham,    Madbury,  Lee,    Somers- 
worth,  Rollinsford,  and  part  of  Newington, 
— all    of  which 
were    included 
i  n    Dover    i  n 
1641,  when  its 
boundaries 
were  defined  for 
the    first    time, 
and  all  of  which 
were  settled  be- 
fore 1660.     In 
civil    affairs    it 
enjoyed  virtual 
s  e  1  f  -  g  o  vern- 
ment.  The  only 
disturbance  was 
that  caused  by 
the  royal  com- 
missioners    i  n 
1665,   who  en- 
deavored to  find  or  create  a  public  sentiment 
in  opposition  to  the  government  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  ;  but,  so  far  as  Dover  was  con- 
cerned, entirely  in  vain.   A  greater  cause  of 
disturbance  was  the  occasional  efforts  of 
the  heirs  of  Mason  to  establish  their  pro- 


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prietary  claims,  efforts  which  developed 
themselves  more  fully  at  a  later  period. 
During  this  period  some  town  votes  are 
worthy  of  copying.  One  was  that  of  the 
27th  of  November,  1648,  when  "It  is 
this  [day]  ordered  at  publique  Town 
meeting  that  Richard  Pinkame  shall  beate 
the  drumme  on  Lord's  days  to  give  notice 
for  the  time  of  meeting."  This  method 
continued  for  several  years.  In  1665  it 
was  "  Ordered  that  mr.  Fetter  Coffin 
shall  be  Impowered  by  this  meitting  to  A 
Gree  with  some  workman  to  Build  a  Ter- 
rett  upon  the  meeitting  house  for  to  hang 


until  1828.  From  1679  to  lne  close  of 
the  Indian  wars  Dover  suffered  extremely. 
Population,  it  is  true,  largely  increased 
during  the  latter  part  of  the  period ;  thus 
the  number  of  polls  in  1675  was  131,  and 
in  1727,  466  (Newington  in  both  cases 
being  excluded).  Nor  did  any  ecclesias- 
tical troubles  occur,  beyond  the  efforts  of 
the  present  town  of  Durham  to  obtain 
separate  authority,  in  which  they  succeed- 
ed in  1716  ;  and  the  question  whether  the 
proper  site  for  a  place  of  worship  was  not 
at  Cochecho,  instead  of  Dover  Neck,  which 
question  was  settled  in  1711  by  having  the 
meetings  alternate,  and,  in  1720,  by  the 
JJ£  entire  removal  to  the  newer  but  tar  larger 
place.  But  the  Indian  wars  severely 


the  Bell  wich  wee  have  Bought 
ofCapt.  Walldern."  In  1657  "Charles 
Buckner  chosen  by  voet  A  Scoellmaster 
for  this  town."  Other  schoolmasters 
followed,  among  whom,  early  in  the  next 
century,  was  "  Master  Sullefund  "  (Sulli- 
van), ancestor  of  the  eminent  family  of  that 
name.  In  1653  the  second  meeting-house 
was  built,  which  was  "  forty  foot  longe, 
twenty-six  foote  wide,  sixteen  foote  studd, 
with  six  windows,  two  doores  fitt  for  such  a 
house,  with  a  tile  covering,  and  to  planck 
all  the  walls,  with  glass  and  nails  for  it." 
The  third  church  was  built  in  1 7 14  (whose 
bell  was  hung  on  a  schoolhouse  near  by)  ; 
the  fourth  in  1758,  which  last  was  used 


impaired,    for    a  long  series  of  years,  the 
prosperity  of  the  place. 

It  was  a  frontier  town,  touching  the 
forests  which  stretched  away  to  Canada, 
defending  an  extensive  frontier,  and  pos- 
sessing but  a  scattered  population.  In 
addition  to  the  general  causes  of  Indian 
hostility,  in  their  own  jealousy  and  the 
machinations  of  the  French,  local  differ- 
ences had  grown  out  of  trading  operations. 
Suspicions  of  hostility  had  been  so  far  ex- 


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cited,  as  early  as  1667,  as  to  lead,  at  that 
time,  to  the  fortification  of  the  meeting- 
house, by  "  intrenchments  and  flankarts," 


ON  LOCUST  STREET. 

in  whose  inclosure  sentinels  paced  during 
divine  service,  and  whose  ruins  are  still 
visible.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  gen- 
eral war  of  1675,  there  commenced  a 
series  of  attacks  upon  the  inhabitants, 
which,  with  occasional  and  sometimes 
protracted  intervals  of  peace,  did  not 
wholly  end  until  the  treaty  of  Aix-la-Cha- 
pelle.  As  most  of  these  were  petty  affairs, 
and  of  the  same  general  character,  it  is 
unnecessary  to  narrate  them  particularly. 
Exposed  houses  were  captured  and 
burned,  individuals  at  work  were  killed  ; 
inhabitants  were  waylaid  and  shot  on  their 
way  to  church ;  captives  were  carried  to 
Canada,  to  be  ransomed  at  a  , heavy  ex- 
pense, or,  in  repeated  cases,'  to  live  and. 
die  there,  where  the  blood  of  Dover  set- 
tlers is  still  perpetuated.  On  the  other 
hand,  Indians  were  often  surprised  ;  their 
stores  of  provisions  were  destroyed ;  the 
woods  were  scoured  by  rangers,  especi- 
ally by  parties  of  exasperated  young  men  ; 
and  sometimes  severe  blows  were  struck. 
The  most  destructive  affair,  upon  what  is 
now  Dover  soil,  may  be  more  particularly 
noticed. 

It  occurred  on  the  morning  of  the  28th 
of  June,  1689.  Thirteen  years  before,  at 
a  time  when,  although  war  had  broken 
out  on  the  Kennebec,  there  was  peace  at 
Piscataqua,  400  Indians  were  assembled 
at  Cochecho,  200  of  whom  were  refugees 
from  the  south  of  Massachusetts;  and, 
ignorant  of  the  unity  of  the  government, 
thought  themselves  safe  with  Major  Wal- 


derne,  who  then  commanded  the  forces 
of  that  territory.  Two  companies  of  whites, 
on  their  way  to  the  Kennebec,  stopped  at 
Dover,  who  brought  with  them 
orders  to  seize  all  Indians  re- 
cently hostile,  which  they  would 
have    proceeded    by    force    to 
obey  ;  but  Walderne,  knowing  the 
bloodshed  which  would  follow, 
dissuaded  them,  and   contrived 
a  stratagem    to   seize  them  by 
means  of  a  sham  fight.     It  was 
successful ;  the  whole  were  dis- 
armed,   and    the   Southern   In- 
dians were  sent  to  Boston,  where 
four  or  five  were  hung,  and  the 
remainder    sold     into     slavery. 
Thirteen  years  passed  away,  dur- 
ing which  a  relentless  thirst  for  vengeance 
was   cherished.      In    the   course    of  this 
period  former  habits  of  trade  revived,  and 
whites  and  Indians  mingled  freely.      But 
the  old  enmity  was  fostered  by  some   of 
those  enslaved  who  had  returned.     On  the 


DR.  EZRA  GREE  N,  AT   101   YEARS  OF  AGE. 


DOVER  J623-J898 


27th  of  June,  the  Indians  were  noticed  to 
be  gathered  in  unaccustomed  numbers. 
Many  strange  faces  also  appeared.  Some 
of  the  people  hinted  to  Walderne  their 
suspicions.  "  Go  plant  your  pumpkins, 
and  I  will  tell  you  when  the  Indians  will 
break  out,"  was  his  merry  reply.  That 
evening,  a  young  man  told  him  that  the 
town  was  full  of  Indians.  "  I  know  the 
Indians  very  well,"  said  Walderne,  "  and 
there  is  no  danger."  The  Indians  told  him 
that  a  number  of  Indians  were  coming  to 
trade  next  day.  "  Brother  Walderne," 
said  Messandowitt,  as  they  sat  at  supper, 
"what  would  you  do  if  the  strange  Indians 
should 
come?"  "I 
could  assem- 
ble a  hun- 
dred men  by 
lifting  up  my 
finger,"  was 
his  careless 
answer.  In 
the  evening 
two  squaws 
applied  a  t 
each  garri- 
s  o  n  house 
(Walderne's 
H  card's, 
O  t  i  s  '  s, 
P  a  i  n  e  '  s, 
the  two 
Coffins',  and 
G  e  r  rish's), 
for  permis- 
sion to  sleep 
before  the 
kitchen  fire,  as  had  often  been  done 
before.  It  was  granted  at  Walderne's, 
Heard's,  the  elder  Coffin's  and  Otis's. 
In  the  hour  of  deepest  quiet  the  doors 
were  opened ;  the  Indians  in  waiting  en- 
tered. Walderne,  though  seventy-four 
years  old,  defended  himself  with  vigor 
until  stunned  by  a  blow  on  the  back  of 
his  head.  The  Indians  then  dragged  him 
into  the  hall,  placed  him  in  his  chair 
upon  the  table,  with  a  derisive  cry,  "who 
shall  judge  Indians  now?"  and  cut  him 
across  the  breast  in  turn,  each  exclaiming, 
"  I  cross  out  my  account,"  and  finally 
killed  him.  A  messenger  sent  from  Bos- 


BRACEWELL  BLOCK,  BEFORE  THE  FLOOD. 


ton  with  warning  of  this  very  attack  was 
delayed  a  night  at  Newbury.  When  he 
reached  Cochecho  the  next  morning,  he 
found  four  or  five  houses  burned,  four 
garrisons  destroyed,  twenty-three  persons 
killed,  and  that  twenty-nine  were  captives 
on  their  way  to  Canada.  Among  these 
was  Christine  Otis,  whose  romantic  ad- 
ventures a  limited  space  forbids  us  to 
recount.  Other  attacks  were  made 
upon  parts  of  what  was  then  Dover, 
disastrous  still,  but  the  intrepid  settlers 
never  fell  back  for  a  day  from  their 
frontier  position.  Among  the  various  arts 
to  surprise  the  whites,  tradition  has  pre- 
served the 
following  : 
The  hay- 
makers,hav- 
i  n  g  made 
hay  upon  a 
meadow  a 
mile  or 
more  up  the 
river  from 
t  h  e  falls, 
had  piled  it 
into  cocks 
and  left  it. 
One  warm 
day,  when 
the  men 
were  absent 
from  Wal- 
derne's gar- 
rison (a  few 
rods  from 
the  lower 
falls),  and 
the  doors  were  open  for  air,  the  women 
noticed  the  haycocks  floating  down  the 
stream.  They  exclaimed  against  this 
wanton  mischief;  but  none,  save  one,  paid 
any  further  attention  to  it ;  and  she,  as  she 
sat  carelessly  looking,  was  suddenly  sur- 
prised to  see  the  cocks  edging  towards  the 
shore.  A  close  inspection  revealed  the 
cause — under  every  haycock  an  Indian  was 
swimming.  She  gave  the  alarm  ;  the  doors 
were  hastily  closed,  and  the  house  secured 
Justin  time  against  the  baffled  savages. 

In  the  midst  of  other  troubles,  the 
Masonian  controversy  revived.  Several 
cases  were  tried  at  Dover  in  1683,  Wald- 


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derne's  being  the  first.  He  made  no  de- 
fense, asserted  no  title,  and  gave  no  evi- 
dence. Judgment  was  entered  against 
him,  and  other  cases  followed  ;  but  in  no 
case  could  an  execution  be  enforced. 
Riots  ensued,  the  attempt  to  enforce  an 
execution  at  Dover  being  ended  by  a 
woman's  knocking  down  the  officer  with  a 
bible.  Against  such  a  spirit  nothing 
could  be  done,  and  the  suits  were  sus- 
pended. They  again  came  up  in  1703, 
pased  through  various  courts,  and  were  a 
source  of  constant  perplexity  to  the  peo- 


All  through  the  war,  in  Rhode  Island,  at 
Bennington,  at  Saratoga,  at  New  York, 
and  on  every  field  where  northern  troops 
were  found,  Dover  men  were  in  active 
service ;  while  at  sea,  not  a  few  of  its 
hardy  sons  were  the  followers  of  John 
Paul  Jones.  The  last  person  known  to 
have  served  with  him,  Dr.  Ezra  Green, 
surgeon  on  board  the  Ranger,  died  in 
Dover,  July  27, 1847,  aged  101  years  and 
one  month,  being  previous  to  his  death 
the  oldest  living  graduate  of  Harvard 
College. 

From  the  close  of  the  war  of  the  Revo- 
lution until  the  introduction  of  cotton 
manufacturing,  the  town  grew  somewhat 
slowly.  Its  population  in  1 790  was  1,998  ; 


pie,  and  great 
complication  i  n 
political  affairs, 
until  1746. 

From  the  con- 
clusion of  the  In- 
dian wars  to  the 
Revolution,  noth- 
ing peculiar  marks 
the  history  of 
Dover.  Its  busi- 
n  e  s  s  (including 
s  h  i  p  b  u  il  ding) 
continued  to  increase.  Its  population  in 
1767  was  1,614,  having  already  lost"Mad- 
bury  and  Somersworth  (including  Rollins- 
ford),  Durham,  and  Lee.  The  population 
of  the  original  territory  at  that  time  was 
5,446;  of  the  present  Dover  1,666,  in- 
cluding twenty-six  slaves.  During  the 
Revolution  it  bore  its  part  of  the  burdens, 
supplying  largely  both  troops  and  money. 
An  entire  regiment  was  enlisted  at  Dover 
by  Colonel  John  Waldron,  under  whom  it 
joined  the  army  at  Cambridge.  The  town 
itself  paid  bounties  to  all  who  enlisted. 


BRACEWELL  BLOCK,  AFTER  THE  FLOOD. 


in  1800,2,062;  in  1810,  2,228  ;  in  1820, 
2,871,  which  by  1860  had  increased  to 
8, 1 86,  the  valuation  at  that  time  being 
$3,629,442.  It  was,  so  far,  a  farming 
and  ship-building  town.  But,  with  the 
erection  of  cotton  mills  a  change  came 
over  the  place.  The  succession  of  saw- 
mills, grist-mills,  fulling-mills,  oil-mills, and 
nail  factory,  which  had  covered  181  years 
ended  in  1821,  when  the"  Dover  Factory 
Company"  was  incorporated,  by  which, 
and  its  successor,  the  "  Cocheco  Manu- 
facturing Company,"  the  present  large 


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cotton  factories  and  print  works  were 
erected.  To  this  enterprise  alone  must 
be  ascribed  the  steady  growth  and  com- 
mercial prosperity  of  Dover. 

In  1841  the  opening  of  the  Boston  and 
Maine  railroad,  and  the  construction,  a 
few  years  after,  of  the  Cocheco  railroad 
to  Alton,  to  both  of  which  Dover  people 
contributed  liberally,  had  a  marked  effect 
upon  the  business  of  the  town.  While 
its  local  trade  and  interests  were  on  the 
increase,  its  importance  as  a  distributing 
point  for  interior  trade  declined.  The 
Dover- Packet  Company,  which  had  for 


superseded  by  a  city  organization.  With 
the  city  government  came  in  the  use  of 
gas  in  lighting  the  streets  and  dwellings, 
improved  sidewalks,  a  police  court,  a 
more  efficient  administration  of  the  laws, 
and  other  city  institutions,  quiet  and  or- 
derly elections  included.  The  act  incor- 
porating the  City  of  Dover  was  signed 
June  29,  1855,  and  was  accepted  by  the 
citizens  at  a  town  meeting  held  August  15, 
1855.  The  first  mayor,  Andrew  Peirce, 
took  the  oath  of  office  March  25,  1856, 
and  the  city  government  was  then  inaugu- 
rated. 


VIEW  ON  SILVER  STREET. 


many  years  given  life  and  activity  to  the 
wharves  and  storehouses  on  the  river,  soon 
discharged  its  last  cargo,  the  Landing 
ceased  to  be  the  centre  of  business,  which 
from  this  time  gathered  around  the  rail- 
road station  and  the  streets  leading  to  it. 
In  1847  the  introduction  of  shoe  manu- 
facturing for  the  southern  and  western 
markets  added  largely  to  the  business  of 
the  place,  employing  after  a  few  years  a 
large  capital,  and  in  a  good  season  more 
workmen  than  any  other  industry. 

In  1855  the  town  government,  after  an 
existence  of  222  years,  or  from  1633,  was 


During  the  Civil  war  the  part  borne  by 
the  Dover  companies  has  emblazoned  their 
names  on  the  scroll  of  fame.  On  the 
evening  of  the  President's  first  call  the 
citizens  met  in  the  city  hall.  The  mayor, 
Alphonso  Bickford,  presided,  and  resolu- 
tions were  unanimously  adopted,  com- 
mending the  President's  action  and  pledg- 
ing their  support  to  the  government. 
Companies  were  formed  and  the  patriot- 
ism ot  the  citizens  was  unbounded.  On 
Wednesday,  April  i7th,  1861,  by  author- 
ity of  the  Governor  of  the  State,  George 
W.  Colbath  opened  a  recruiting-office  in 


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our  City  Hall.  Oji  Thursday  he  informed 
the  Governor  that  the  first  company  was 
full.  He  was  directed  to  proceed  with 
enlistments.  On  the  next  Monday  150 
men  were  on  the  muster  roll.  On  Mon- 
day, the  29th,  tbe  first  two  companies 
were  to  leave  home,  to  become  Companies 
A  and  B  of  the  First  New  Hampshire. 
The  day  before  they  had  listened  to  a 
stirring  sermon  in  the  old  First  Church, 
from  a  successor  of  that  minister  who  had 
preached  to  the  soldiers  here  on  the  same 
spot  as  they  were  to  take  up  their  march 
to  Cambridge  in  1775.  At  ten  o'clock, 


1 1  th  of  May  the  choice  was  given  to  each, 
— three  years  or  be  discharged.  Seventy- 
one  on  that  day  chose  the  three  years,  and 
five  days  afterwards  the  number  was  104. 
On  the  25th  that  company  left  the  city  to 
become  company  D  in  the  gallant  second 
New  Hampshire. 

Of  how  many  men  this  city  furnished 
during  the  four  years  that  followed  the 
record  is  not  perfect.  Even  in  the  im- 
perfect rolls  there  were  Dover  men  in  each 
of  the  first  fifteen  regiments  and  in  the 
eighteenth,  in  the  cavalry,  the  navy,  and 
the  marine  corps.  From  the  call  of  July 


CENTRAL  AVENUE,  LOOKING  SOUTH. 


Monday  morning,  they  were  in  line  in 
Central  Square,  145  men  in  the  ranks. 
Four  thousand  people  witnessed  the  scene, 
— in  the  streets,  from  windows,  from  bal- 
conies, from  the  house-tops.  The  women 
had  been  working  day  by  day  to  supply 
needed  clothing,  some  of  them  whose  tears 
dropped  as  they  sewed.  Prayer  was  of- 
fered by  one  who  soon  after  himself  went 
to  serve  in  the  navy,  Rev.  T.  G.  Salter. 

A  third  company  was  meanwhile  formed 
from  the  excess  of  enlistments.  Orders 
now  came,  however,  to  receive  only  those 
who  would  enlist  for  three  vears.  On  the 


2nd,  1862,  582  names  are  on  record. 
Prior  to  that  were  all  the  first  men  of  the 
first  eight  regiments,  and  of  the  sailors  en- 
tering the  navy  before  that  date  which 
should  be  added.  Some  examination  of 
the  rolls  shows  that  more  than  800  enlist- 
ments were  made  by  this  city  of  8,500 
inhabitants.  Dover  men  served  in  the 
Shenandoah  and  in  the  first  disastrous 
march  to  Bull  Run ;  they  were  in  the 
Peninsula  battles  and  marches ;  in  the 
several  battles  before  Washington ;  in  the 
bloody  charge  at  Antietam  bridge.  They 
were  in  the  charge  up  the  heights  of  St. 


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Marie.  They  were  in  the  burning 
woods  of  Chancellorsville.  They  were 
where  Lee  hurled  his  legions  against  Ceme- 
tery Hill  at  Gettysburg:  in  the  long  and 
bloody  march  from  the  Wilderness  to 
Petersburg.  They  were  in  North  Carolina. 
They  were  with  Burnside  in  Tennessee, 
and  with  Sherman  back  of  Vicksburg,  and 
they  sailed  the  coast,  and  watched  the 
harbors,  and  manned  the  war  boats  on  the 
Mississippi. 

To  raise  and  put  its  quota  of  men  into 
the  service,  under  the  various  calls  which 
were  issued,  the  city  advanced  upwards  of 
$250,000,  increas- 
ing its  expendi- 
tures from  $59,- 
272,  in  1860,  to 
$233.462  in  1865. 
A  soldiers'  monu- 
ment was  erected 
in  the  Pine  Hill 
bury  ing- ground  by 
Charles  \V.  Sawyer 
Post,  G.  A.  R., 
and  dedicated 
Sept.  i  7)  1877. 

In  1871  Con- 
gress appropriated 
$10,000  for  the 
purpose  of  remov- 
ing obstructions  in 
the  Cocheco 
River.  In  1872 
an  additional  sum 
of  $  1 0,000  w  a  s 
granted,  followed 
by  a  like  amount 
in  each  of  the  two 
succeeding  years. 
In  1875  the  sum  was  increased  to  $2 5, ooo, 
and  later  a  further  sum  of  $15,000,  which 
gave  free  access  to  vessels  employed  in  the 
coal  and  other  freighting  business  upon 
the  river. 

In  November,  1872,  ground  was  broken 
for  the  construction  of  the  Portsmouth  and 
Dover  Railroad,  an  enterprise  which  had 
been  in  contemplation  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  The  road  was  built  in  that 
and  the  following  year,  and  opened  for 
travel  in  February,  1874,  costing  some 
$800,000,  of  which  sum  the  city,  in  its 
municipal  capacity  contributed  $258,000, 


THE  HIGH  SCHOOL. 


while  many  of  its  citizens  made  lib- 
eral private  subscriptions  for  stock. 

The  "  Dover  Building  Association  "  was 
organized  in  March,  1875,  with  a  capital 
of  $10,000.  Since  that  time  it  has  in- 
vested between  $30,000  and  $40,000  in 
real  estate,  building  about  thirty  dwelling- 
houses,  many  of  which  have  already  been 
satisfactorily  disposed  of,  affording  hand- 
some dividends  to  the  stockholders,  and 
furnishing  desirable  tenements  to  a  most 
valuable  class  of  population. 

On  the  morning  of  March  22,  1889, the 
old  city  hall  was  completely  destroyed  by 
fire,  which  also 
damaged  the  spire 

0  f    t  h  e  Belknap 
church    adjoining. 
The  damage  in  all 
amounted    to 
$100,000.      The 
county     and    city 
had  been  joint  oc- 
cupants   of    the 
building,  and  after 

1  t  s      destruction 
Rochester  en- 
deavored to  obtain 
the   new    county 
building    which 
then  became  nec- 
essary, but  it  was 
decided    to  retain 
the  County  seat  in 
Dover,    and    the 
present  handsome 
building  on  Second 
street  was  erected 
Immediately  after 
the  fire,  steps  were 

taken  to  build  another  city  hall  and  the 
present  site  was  chosen.  The  lot  faces  on 
Central  avenue  and  is  bounded  by  Locust, 
Hale,  and  St.  Thomas  streets.  It  formerly 
contained  the  St.  Thomas  church,  and  old 
Lafayette  house  the  former  of  which  was 
demolished  and  the  latter  removed  across 
the  street.  The  city  sold  the  old  site  upon 
which  now  stands  the  Masonic  Temple. 
The  corner  stone  of  the  present  city  hall 
was  laid  July  4th,  1890,  and  the  new 
building  dedicated  December  r6,  1891. 
The  plans  were  drawn  by  George  G. 
Adams,  of  Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  the  con- 


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tractors  were  Mclntyre  and  Abbott  who 
subsequently  sub-let  the  brick- work  to 
Mack  Bros.,  of  Salem,  Mass.  The  build- 
ing was  however  finished  by  the  Building 
Committee  consisting  of  Hon.  B.  Frank 
Nealley,  Chairman  ;  John  Holland,  Joshua 
L.  Foster,  Dennis  Cash,  Joseph  T.  Wood- 
bur)',  Charles  M.  Corson  and  Nathaniel 
C.  Wentworth. 

March  i,  1896,  will  long  be  remem- 
bered by  the  citizens  of  Dover  as  the 
"  night  of  the  flood."  Considerable  dam- 
age was  done  to  property.  Six  bridges  with- 
in the  city's  limits  were  demolished  ;  four 


away  in  the  distance,  views  may  be  had 
of  uncommon  beauty.  The  Newichawan- 
nock,  the  Bellamy  and  Cochecho,  which 
flow  through  the  city  in  a  southeast  direc- 
tion, not  only  add  to  its  beauty,  but  also 
to  its  wealth,  by  their  direct  and  navigable 
connection  with  the  ocean.  The  city  is 
rich  in  historic  land-marks ;  old  residences, 
churches,  business  blocks  and  relics  of  the 
past  are  to  be  seen  on  every  hand.  But 
these  have  become  very  much  obscured 
by  the  palpable  evidences  of  improvement 
and  progress  everywhere  throughout  the 
city,  especially  in  the  residential  sections. 


STRAFFORD  GUARDS  ON  THE  WAY  TO  THE  FRONT. 


stores  with  all  their  stock  were  swept  away, 
including  the  southern  end  of  the  Brace- 
well  block  and  the  Central  avenue  bridge. 
The  situation  of  Dover  is  exceedingly 
pleasant.  Gentle  elevations,  easy  swells 
of  land,  and  winding  streams,  characterize 
its  surface.  From  the  high  ridge  between 
the  rivers  Newichawannock  and  Bellamy, 
and  from  another  elevation  overlooking 
the  waters  of  Great  Bay  with  the  Winni- 
cumet,  the  Lamprey,  the  Swamscott,  the 
Shaukhassick,  and  the  Newichawannock 
(with  its  tributary  the  Cochecho),  all 
uniting  to  form  the  Piscataqua,  rolling 


The  Strafford  Guards. 

COMPANY     F.     FIRST     REGIMENT    NEW    HAMP- 
SHIRE   VOLUNTEERS. 

At  no  period  since  the  stirring  times  of 
1861-65  has  the  patriotism  of  Dover  peo- 
ple reached  such  a  height  as  when  the 
President  called  for  125,000  volunteers  to 
fight  for  the  honor  of  our  flag  in  our  war 
with  Spain.  The  Strafford  Guards  was 
the  company  chosen  to  go  to  the  front, 
and  on  Saturday,  May  yth,  they  left  Dover 
amid  scenes  of  wild  enthusiasm  and  went 
into  camp  at  Concord,  82  officers  and 


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men  strong.  Their  departure  was  wit- 
nessed by  thousands  of  citizens,  and  the  city 
was  gaily  decorated,  the  Sawyer-Rifles  and 
C.  W.  Sawyer  Post,  G.  A.  R.  forming  an 
escort  to  the  depot.  On  May  i2th,  they 
were  mustered  into  the  United  States  ser- 
vice, and  on  the  lyth  departed  for  Chick- 
amauga  Park,  Georgia,  where  they  were 
stationed  when  this  work  went  to  press. 

The  Strafford  Guards  were  permanently 
organized  at  Dover,  in  October,  1822,  and 
in  the  spring  of  the  next  year  the  company 
became  a  part  <  f  the  state  militia,  being 


April  24,  1864,  the  company  was  mustered 
into  the  service  of  the  United  States  for 
the  period  of  sixty  days  and  sent  to  Fort 
Constitution,  New  Castle,  to  assist  in  re- 
lieving the  First  Company  New  Hampshire  '_ 
Volunteer  Heavy  Artillery,  which  had 
been  ordered  to  the  front.  On  July  28, 
1864.  it  was  mustered  out  of  the  United 
States  service.  The  company  became 
Company  A,  Second  Regiment  New 
Hampshire  Volunteer  State  Militia  on 
September  26,  1866.  During  the  year 
ending  May  1878,  the  First  and  Second 


COMMISSIONED  AND  NON-COMMISSIONED  OFFICERS,  STRAFFORD  GUARDS. 


styled  the  First  Company  Light  Infantry, 
Second  Regiment,  Second  Brigade,  Sec- 
ond Division,  New  Hampshire  Volunteer 
State  Militia.  During  the  summer  of 
1824,  the  company  acted  as  escort  to  the 
Marquis  de  Lafayette,  on  the  occasion  of 
his  visit  to  Dover.  The  Company  was  in- 
corporated under  the  name  of  the  Strafford 
Guards  by  act  of  the  Legislature,  approved 
June  27,  1835.  On  May  5,  1864,  in 
pursuance  of  telegraphic  instructions  from 
Major- General  John  A.  Dix,  command- 
ing the  Department  of  the  East,  dated 


Regiments  were  re-organized,  and  the 
Strafford  Guards  became  Company  A, 
First  Regiment  New  Hampshire  National 
Guard  and  continued  so  until  recently 
when  it  became  Company  F.  The  com- 
pany has  several  times  been  one  of  those 
selected  to  represent  New  Hampshire  at 
celebrations  in  other  states. 

The  roster  of  the  company  in  camp  at 
Concord,  was  as  follows  : — Captain,  Frank 
E.  Rollins ;  First  Lieutenant,  Frank  H. 
Keenan ;  Second  Lieutenant,  Lewis  E. 
Tuttle;  First  Sergeant,  John  J.  Gailey ; 


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Quartermaster  Sergeant,  Herbert  C. 
Grime ;  Second  Sergeant,  John  Sunder- 
land ;  Third  Sergeant,  Joseph  T.  Cronin  ; 
Fourth  Sergeant,  Frank  F.  Davis ;  Fifth 
Sergeant,  Joseph  Connell ;  Corporals,  John 
R.  Maloney,  Frank  E.  Russ,  Edgar  M. 
Foss,  Cassius  B.  Roberts,  Alexander  J. 
McCabe,  James  McNally ;  Artificer,  Austin 
E.  Sanborn ;  Wagoner,  John  P.  Miniter ; 
Musicians,  John  B.  Hebert  and  William 
Rossiter;  Privates,  Nelson  E.  Averill, 
William  Boudreau,  Oliver  Boudreau,  Harry 
E.  Brooks,  John  Burley,  Ben.  R.  Canney, 
John  Canney,  John  E.  Carroll,  Ralph  R. 
Cochrane  (Somersworth),  Wm.  Connell 
(Rochester),  Edward  W.  Cordes,  Wm.  J. 
Cormier  (Somersworth),  James  Costello 
(Manchester),  James  J.  Cronin  (Man- 
chester), John  R.  Curran  (Somers- 
worth), Edward  Doherty,  Hugh  Donnelly, 
Jos.  Drouin,  James  F.  Duffy,  Thos.  Duffy, 
Pearl  Foss,  Frank  H.  Glidden,  Owen  E. 
Hanratty,  R.  Arnold  Hill,  Herbert  B. 
Houghton  (Warner) ,  Henry  Hughes,  Fred 
O.  Jackson,  Ignace  Jean  (Nashua),  John 
Kidney,  Amay  Lamire  (Rochester),  Pear- 
lie  E.  Leach  (Somersworth),  Frank  Lique 
(Rochester),  Wm.  J.  Mahoney,  George 
Marquis  and  Emil  Marquis  (Nashua),  John 
T.  McDonald,  Hugh  E.  McDonald 
(Nashua),  John  J.  McCooey,  Arthur  H. 
Merchant,  Chr.  Morley,  Owen  J.  Mooney, 
Edward  M.  Murphy,  Frank  O.  Mason, 
Arthur  M.  Pingree  (Rochester),  Carroll 
E.  Pinkham,  Alric  W.  Ramsey,  James 
Rodden,  John  W.  Rogers,  Frank  A.  Rowe 
(Concord),  Joseph  W.  Savoie,  Almon  H. 
Stewart  (Rochester),  Fred  W.  Steuerwald, 
James  Sunderland,  Frank  H.  Swain,  Ralph 
G.  Tanner  (Rochester),  Albert  A.  Taylor, 
Michael  J.  Trainor,  Clarence  R.  Tiittle, 
Wm.  G.  Webber,  Clarence  H.  Whitehouse, 
Irving  L.  Whitehouse,  George  W.  Willey 
(Somersworth)  and  Henry  R.  Wood. 

The  company  is  composed  of  men  of 
excellent  physique  who  have  been  inured  to 
work  which  eminently  fits  them  for  their 
arduous  duties  in  the  field.  During  their 
stay  in  camp  at  Concord  their  high  state 
of  discipline  and  their  excellent  conduct 
won  for  them  golden  opinions.  The 
same  is  true  of  them  at  Camp  Thomas, 
Chickamauga,  where  despite  the  extreme 
heat  and  the  many  privations  incidental 


to  the  massing  at  short  notice  of  such  a 
large  number  of  troops,  their  discipline 
has  been  excellent.  Constant  drills,  field 
manoeuvring,  tactics  and  sentry  duty  have 
imposed  a  severe  strain  upon  the  men, 
but  their  duties  have  but  increased  their 
ardor,  and  when  the  order  comes  to  go 
to  the  front  the  gallant  company  F  will 
present  as  fine  an  appearance  as  any  reg- 
iment of  regulars.  They  take  pride  in 
these  exercises  and  devote  their  earnest 
attention  to  mastering  every  detail  of  a 
soldier's  duty.  Captain  Rollins,  his  of- 
ficers and  non-commissioned  officers  have 
worked  indefatigably  to  bring  their  men 
to  a  state  of  perfect  efficiency,  and  the 
success  which  has  attended  their  well  di- 
rected efforts  is  as  pleasing  as  it  is  marked. 
It  is  safe  to  assert  that  the  company  will 
acquit  themselves  on  the  field  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  reflect  credit  not  only  upon 
themselves,  but  also  upon  the  city  of  Do- 
ver to  which  the  majority  of  them  belong. 
The  men  have  comported  themselves  in 
true  military  style,  and  although  chafing  at 
the  delay  in  taking  the  field,  their  conduct 
has  been  in  every  way  most  exemplary. 
They  are  full  of  patriotism  and  keep  in  ex- 
cellent spirits,  the  sick  list  being  exceed- 
ingly small. 


The  Sawyer  Rifles. 

CO.     D.     FIRST     REGIMENT     NEW     HAMPSHIRE 
NATIONAL    GUARD. 

The  Sawyer  Rifles  was  organized  May 
i,  1887,  and  was  named  for  Hon.  Charles 
H.  Sawyer.  The  officers  are ;  Captain, 
David  Y.  Robinson ;  First  Lieutenant, 
Charles  H.  Hanson.  Their  Armory  is 
located  in  Lowell's  Hall,  Third  street, 
where  regular  drills  are  held.  About  forty 
men  constitute  the  company,  but  during 
the  American-Spanish  war  it  was  recruited 
to  its  full  strength.  The  officers  and  men 
were  much  chagrined  at  not  being  called 
out  for  active  service,  and  several  volun- 
teered and  were  accepted  as  recruits  in  the 
Strafford  Guards  when  they  received  orders 
to  go  to  the  front.  The  company  was  de- 
tailed as  an  escort  for  the  Strafford  Guards 
and  accompanied  them  from  the  armory 
to  the  depot  when  they  left  Dover  for 
Concord,  Saturday,  May  yth,  1898. 


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Dover  of  To-day. 

Dover  is  eligibly  situated  on  the  Co- 
checo  river,  surrounded  by  fertile  farms  and 
located  in  one  of  the  most  beautiful  sec- 
tions of  the  state.  It  is  in  the  eastern  part 
of  Strafford  county,  sixty-one  miles  from 
Concord,  and  sixty-eight  miles  from  Bos- 
ton, on  the  main  line  of  the  great  Boston 
&  Maine  railroad,  being  the  focal  point  of 
several  branches  of  that  system,  which 
radiate  from  the  city  and  cover  the  entire 
contiguous  territory.  Boston  can  be 
reached  in  two  hours,  there  being  numer- 
ous passenger  trains  to  and  from  the  city 
daily.  Dover  is  bounded  on  the  north  by 
Rochester  and 
So  m  ers worth, 
on  the  east  by 
Some  rs worth, 
Rollin  sf  o  rd 
and  the  Salmon 
Falls  river, 
which  s  e  p  a  - 
rates  it  from 
the  State  of 
Maine,  on  the 
south  by  Mad- 
bury,  and  the 
Piscataqua  riv- 
er, and  on  the 
west  by  Mad- 
bury  and  Bar- 
rington.  The 
Cocheco  river 
runs  through 
the  heart  of  the 
city  and  is  navi- 
gable to  vessels  of  light  draught  from  the 
ocean  to  the  landing,  the  scenery  along  its 
banks,  particularly  at  Dover  Point,  being 
singularly  beautiful.  The  falls  are  thirty-one 
and  one-half  feet  high  and  an  abundance  of 
power  is  furnished  to  the  great  mills,  much 
of  which  is  still  available  for  manufactur- 
ing purposes.  The  Cocheco  and  Salmon 
Falls  rivers  join  some  distance  below  the 
city.  Dover  is  the  recognized  commercial 
centre  of  Strafford  county,  being  the  shire 
town  and  the  seat  of  the  county  govern- 
ment. The  census  of  1890  gave  a  popu- 
lation of  12,841,  representing  3,000  fami- 
lies, and  the  present  estimated  population 
is  about  14,000.  The  assessed  polls  are 


STRAFFORD  COUNTY  COURT  HOUSE. 


3,122  and  the  voting  strength  is' 2,700. 
The  latest  assessor's  figures  give  the  city  a 
total  valuation  of  $9,000,000  approximate- 
ly, the  tax  rate  being  $1.95  per  hundred. 

RESIDENTIAL. 

If  beauty  of  situation,  benefits  of  unex- 
celled business  opportunity,  all  that  is  wise 
in  conservatism,  united  with  all  that  is 
noble  in  the  grand  progressive  movement 
of  the  present  age ;  if  surroundings  eleva- 
ting in  influence,  institutions  helpful  in  an 
honorable  struggle  with  the  vicissitudes  of 
practical  life ;  if  health,  wealth  and  happi- 
ness are  attractions  in  a  place  of  residence, 
then  Dover  truly  recommends  herself  as 
e  s  s  e  n  t  ially  a 
pleasant  place  to 
live  in.  The 
resident  of  Do- 
ver, be  he  work- 
man with  hands 
or  brain,  may 
have  his  own 
home,  made 
attainable  by  the 
large  industries 
which  readily 
exchange  money 
for  good  service, 
and  by  low  rents 
with  room  for 
the  garden. 
These  combined 
with  the  cheap- 
ness of  the  over- 
flowing home 
market  relieve 
him  from  an  existence  of  mere  animal 
slavery  to  the  common  needs  of  life. 
Thus  the  manufacturer  and  capitalist 
seeking  a  home  in  Dover  finds  his  interests 
and  the  safety  and  well-being  of  society 
resting  on  a  sound,  secure  basis  of  well- 
conditioned  labor.  A  larger  question  and 
one  of  greater  import  than  the  mere  ques- 
tion of  labor  to  the  man  planting  his  busi- 
ness here,  is  that  the  whole  conduct  of  the 
affairs  of  the  city  by  the  selection  of  its 
officers,  is  in  the  hands  of  intelligent 
people  who  make  Dover  their  permanent 
home,  and  do  not  leave  us  to  the  mercy 
of  a  shifting  population.  Our  building 
facilities,  too,  are  unexcelled.  The  best 


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of  building  stone,  especially  for 
foundations,  can  be  bought  at  little 
expense,  and  good  bricks  are  made 
from  the  best  of  clay  within  our  borders  so 
cheaply  that  we  ship  them  in  large  quan- 
tities to  Boston  and  other  places.  The 
river  enables  us  to  bring  timber  and  lime  to 
our  wharves  at  reasonable  rates.  The  su- 
perior system  of  public  schools ;  the  ines- 
tima  b  1  e 
bene  fi  t  s 
of  the  re- 
ligious 
p  r  i  v  i  - 
leges  af- 
f orded 
by  the 
many 
c  h  urch- 


various  requirements  of  the  types  of  men 
and  women  in  whose  lives  the  term  and 
place  of  home  takes  a  predisposing  part. 
Dover's  streets  are  wide,  well  kept  and 
lined  with  beautiful  and  luxuriant  shade 
trees.  There  are  numerous  pleasant  resi- 
dential streets,  and  the  important  business 
thoroughfares  are  Central  avenue,  which 
runs  through  the  heart  of  the  city, 
Washington  and  Locust  streets.  There 
are  two  important  squares — Central  and 
Franklin. 

GOVERNMENT. 

The  City  Government  is   vested    in    a 
Mayor  and  Board  of  ten  Aldermen,  elected 
annually,  two  by  each  ward,  and  a  Common 
Council,  three  members  being  elected  annu- 
ally from  each  of  the  five  wards.  The  mayor 
presides  over  the  board  of 
aldermen,    the   president 
of    the    council    being 
elected   each   year  from 
among  the  members.  The 
city  hall,  a  massive   and 
stately  building,  faces  on 
Central  avenue  and  cost 
$225,000. 


Religion,    the    recog- 


A  GROUP  OF  DOVER'S  CHURCHES. 


es  ;  the  advantages  of  our  free  public  library, 
and  the  most  charming  social  circles — all 
these  advantages  in  location  of  healthful 
climate  and  sanitary  local  influences,  to- 
gether with  the  business  prospects  and 
opportunities  of  the  city,  make  it,  as  it 
were,  a  medley  of  substantial  attractions 
as  a  residence  singularly  suited  to  the 


nition  of  God  as  an  object  of  worship,  love 
and  obedience,  the  corner-stone  on  which 
our  civilization  rests,  must  occupy  a  place 
in  every  man's  thoughts.  The  churches  of 
Dover  are  widely  distributed,  and  are  con- 
fined to  no  section.  The  ecclesiastical  ed- 
ifices are  mostly  of  substantial  and  endur- 
ing proportions  and  the  condition  of  their 


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financial  affairs  attests  the  most  skilful  and 
conservative  direction.  There  are  thirteen 
churches  :  two  Congregational,  two  Free- 
will Baptist,  two  Roman  Catholic,  Friends, 
Unitarian,  Episcopal,  Methodist,  Second 
Advent,  Calvinist  Baptist,  and  Universalist. 
Some  of  the  church  edifices  are  beauti- 
ful in  architectural  design  and  finish  and 
the  pastors  are  zealous,  efficient  and  im- 
bued with  a  sense  of  their  duties  and  re- 
sponsibilities. The  Christian  sentiment  of 
the  city  is  intelligent,  earnest,  watchful 
and  persistent,  and  is  manifesting  an  activ- 
ity that  will  secure  to  Dover  abundant 
church  privileges,  and  well  planted  centres 


ing  chosen  by  the  City  Councils.  Their 
sanitation,  heating  and  ventilation  are  care- 
fully attended  to,  and  the  course  of  study 
prescribed  is  judiciously  selected  to  meet 
the  requirements  necessary  for  the  impart- 
ing of  a  sound  education  to  the  pupils.  The 
High  school  is  situated  on  Chestnut  street 
and  its  curriculum  is  of  the  highest  order. 
Its  certificate  of  graduation  entitles  the 
holder  to  step  into  Dartmouth  college 
without  further  qualification.  There  are 
four  Grammar  schools :  the  Sawyer,  Bel- 
knap,  Sherman  and  Pine  Hill;  five  Prim- 
ary schools,  the  Sawyer,  Peirce,  Varney, 
Hale  and  Welch ;  four  Ungraded  schools, 
Garrison  Hill,  Back  River,  Upper 
and  Lower  Neck;  and  two  Pa- 
rochial schools — those  of  St 
Joseph's  and  the  Sacred  Heart. 


LOCUST  STREET  AND  CENTRAL  AVENUE. 


of  a  healthy  Christian  influence  in  the 
years  to  come.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the 
Salvation  Army  and  numerous  efforts  in 
the  line  of  mission  work  also  receive  en- 
couragement and  support. 

EDUCATIONAL. 

The  schools  of  Dover  are  regarded  with 
much  favor  by  our  citizens  and  large  ap- 
propriations are  devoted  to  their  use  each 
year  by  the  city  government.  They  are 
under  the  control  and  direction  of  a  School 
Committee  consisting  of  fifteen  members, 
each  ward  electing  one  member  annually 
for  two  years,  the  remaining  members  be- 


The  teaching  force  numbers  forty-five,  and 
the  total  enrollment  of  pupils  is  1,608, 
exclusive  of  the  Parochial  schools.  The 
rule  adopted  by  the  committee  October  4, 
1897,  that  "  In  the  election  of  new  teach- 
ers preference  will  be  given  to  candidates 
holding  state  certificates,  or  those  who  are 
graduates  of  a  normal  school  or  a  college, 
other  qualifications  being  equal,"  is  likely 
to  be  far-reaching  in  its  influence,  and  to 
exercise  a  constant  tendency  towards 
raising  the  standard  of  the  teaching  force. 
There  is  also  a  well  managed  and  largely 
attended  business  college,  where  pupils  are 
fitted  for  commercial  pursuits. 


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FINANCIAL. 

While  reasonable  conservatism  has  char- 
acterized the  management  of  Dover's  bank- 
ing institutions — it  is  not  to  be  presumed 
that  they  are  by  any  means  lacking  in  en- 
terprise or  that  safe  and  careful  kind  of  pub- 
lic spirit  that  stands  ready  to  extend 
proper  assistance  to  public  and  private 
movements  based  on  correct  principles  for 
development  of  resources,  the  prosecution 
of  improvements,  the  upholding  of  legiti- 
mate business  ventures  and  the  establish- 
ment and  assistance  of  manufactures  and 
commerce.  On  the  contrary,  as  will  readily 
be  attested  on  all  hands,  these  institutions 
have  frequently  acted  with  liberality  and 
promptitude  in  cases  of  public  and  private 
need  and  thus  earned  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  the  general 
community.  The  officers  and  di- 
rectors of  these  banks  are  men  of 
broad  views,  large  capital  and 
capacity 
iden  t ified 
with  the  city's 
best  interests 
and  prepared 
at  all  times  to 
contribute  of 
their  time, 
labor  and 
means  for  her 
material  ad- 
va  n  c  ement. 
The  banks 

comprise  two  National  and  two  Savings 
banks  with  a  combined  capital  and  de- 
posits of  over  $7,000,000  and  a  co-oper- 
ative bank  founded  in  1890  and  since 
most  successfully  operated.  The  large  in- 
surance companies,  both  home  and  foreign, 
have  representatives  here  and  a  substan- 
tial and  ever  increasing  business  is  car- 
ried on. 

MANUFACTURING. 

The  right  place  to  successfully  manu- 
facture is  evidently  at  a  point  where  the 
raw  material  accumulates  naturally,  and 
where,  at  the  same  time,  there  are  cheap 
power  and  advanced  and  ample  facilities 
for  marketing  the  product.  Dover  has 
for  many  years  furnished  these  conditions. 
With  the  great  railroad  system  of  the 


SCENE  ON  THE  ROAD  TO  DOVER  POINT 


Boston  &  Maine  connecting  the  city  with 
the  markets  of  the  north,  east,  south  and 
west  and  the  Cocheco  river,  navigable  from 
the  ocean  to  the  landing,  material  necessa- 
rily accumulates  here  and  cheap  power 
and  abundant  skilled  labor  are  amply  pro- 
vided and  assured  for  all  time.  Opportuni- 
ties can  be  had  here  by  the  manufacturer 
superior  to  those  of  larger  cities,  for  the 
reason  that  while  equal  facilities  are  found 
here,  at  the  same  time  the  best  and  most 
central  positions  are  available  at  compar- 
atively little  cost,  and  numerous  sites  on 
the  lines  of  railroad  and  on  the  river  banks 
are  open  for  use.  The  manufacturer  who 
locates  here  will  find  everything  at  hand 
for  the  successful  furtherance  of  his  en- 
terprise, and 
a  friendly  and 
helping  hand 
will  be  offered 
to  him  by  our 
citizens. 

No  city  in 
the  world  of- 
fers more  ad- 
vantages t  o 
the  small  or 
large  manu- 
facturer than 
Dover.  The 
introductio  n 
of  new  enter- 
prises will  in- 
crease the  op- 
portunities for  the  retail  merchant  to 
establish  successful  mercantile  operations. 
The  question  has  frequently  been  asked, 
what  can  be  manufactured  in  Dover  to  the 
best  advantage  ?  The  simplest  answer  and 
an  absolutely  true  one  is  everything.  The 
textile  interests  are  very  extensive  and 
have  been  the  chief  factor  in  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  city.  Half  a  dozen  boot  and 
shoe  factories  are  at  present  operated  here  ; 
a  machine  shop,  manufacturing  stoves, 
ranges  and  large  machinery ;  one  of  the 
largest  belting  concerns  in  the  country; 
wood  working  machinery  shops;  twelve 
large  brick  yards,  located  on  each  side  of 
the  river;  two  carriage  factories;  and  nu- 
merous other  industries  are  successfully 
carried  on  and  afford  constant  employ- 
ment to  thousands  at  remunerative  wages. 


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The  city  escaped  to  a  marked  degree  the 
recent  extended  commercial  depression, 
and  throughout  the  relations  of  employer 
and  employee  have  been  amicable  and  no 
strikes  have  paralyzed  our  great  textile 
industries  or  caused  a  moment's  anxiety 
to  their  proprietors. 

RETAIL    BUSINESS. 

Capital  and  business  enterprises  have 
given  Dover  good  stores,  wholesale  and 
retail,  the  stocks  of  merchandise  and  other 
essentials  being  rich  and  varied,  and,  as 
freight  rates  are  comparatively  low,  prices 


cess,  and  so  long  as  the  commercial  inter- 
ests of  Dover  are  in  the  hands  of  such  men 
as  its  present  merchants,  a  still  larger 
measure  of  prosperity  is  assured  beyond  a 
peradventure  of  doubt. 

TRANSPORTATION    AND    COMMUNICATION. 

The  transportation  facilities  of  Dover 
are  largely  in  the  hands  of  the  Boston  and 
Maine  and  the  Union  Electric  railway  com- 
panies. The  Western  Union  and  Postal 
companies  furnish  telegraphic  and  cable 
service  to  all  the  world.  The  New  Eng- 
land Telephone  and  Telegraph  company 


GUSHING  STREET. 


are  quoted  accordingly,  so  that  people 
from  the  surrounding  districts  come  here 
to  buy,  while  the  wholesale  trade,  espec- 
ially in  the  leading  staples,  serves  the  sur- 
rounding sections.  The  business  men  are 
so  fully  alive  and  attentive  to  the  wants  of 
the  community  that  there  is  no  necessity 
for  going  outside  to  get  anything,  for  here 
everything  that  can  be  required  by  a 
family  can  be  had  of  the  latest  pattern  or 
fashion,  and  at  prices  which  compare  fav- 
orably with  those  ruling  in  the  great  met- 
ropolitan centres.  These  enterprises  are 
managed  with  considerable  energy  andsuc- 


maintains  communication  with  the  sur- 
rounding towns,  and  their  long  distance 
service  enables  patrons  to  converse  with 
people  in  all  the  large  cities  of  America 
with  ease.  The  American,  Jackson  and 
Dover  and  Boston  expresses,  with  a  large 
number  of  local  carriers  do  a  general 
transportation  business. 

PUBLIC    IMPROVEMENTS. 

Gas  and  electricity  are  extensively  used 
by  the  citizens  of  Dover  for  lighting  pur- 
poses, being  abundantly  supplied  by  the 
United  Gas  and  Electric  Company.  Elec- 


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tricity  is  exclusively  used  for  street  light- 
ing, the  arc  lamps  numbering  130,  and 
are  placed  so  as  to  afford  the  best  pos- 
sible results  and  effectively  lighting  every 
part  of  the  city.  Among  the  most  valua- 
ble and  necessary  of  our  recent  public  im- 
provements has  been  the  installation  of  a 
perfect  system  of  water-works  at  an  out- 
lay of  over  $355,000,  which  are  now  self- 
supporting.  The  water-takers  number 
1,745,  and  are  supplied  daily  with  an 
average  of  600,000  gallons.  The  pumping 
station,  with  a  capacity  of  pumping  2,000,- 
ooo  gallons  a  day  is 
located  near  Garrison 
Hill.  The  supply  is 
drawn  from  Willand's 
Pond  which  is  aug- 
mented by  springs  and  I 
artesian  wells.  The  I 


red  brick  structure,  ranking  relatively  as 
one  of  the  finest  public  buildings  in  New 
England.  The  streets  and  highways  are 
improved  materially  each  year,  the  appro- 
priations and  additions  last  year  being : 
highways,  $17,236.75  ;  sidewalks,  $2,000; 
sewers,  $3,650;  street  paving,  $2,573.98. 
These  sums  have  been  expended  judicious- 
ly and  with  most  gratifying  results  to  our 
residents.  A  park  commission  of  three 
members  care  for  the  city  park  at  Garri- 
son Hill,  which  forms  a  pleasant  retreat 
during  the  summer  months.  Central  park, 


VIEWS  ON  CENTRAL  AVENUE. 


reservoir  is  on  the  summit  of  Garrison  Hill. 
The  system  has  thirty  miles  of  mains,  and 
sixteen  miles  of  service  piping.  The  city 
hall,  formally  dedicated  in  1891,  contains 
a  beautifully  decorated  and  excellently 
equipped  opera  house,  capable  of  seating 
r, 800  people  ;  public  library  containing 
22,714  volumes  of  the  choicest  literature  ; 
armory ;  police  station  and  court  room, 
with  ample  office  accommodation  for  the 
city  officials.  The  building  was  erected 
at  a  cost  of  $225,000,  and  is  a  stately 


situated  on  the  line  of  the  Union  Electric 
railway,  and  containing  twenty  acres  taste- 
fully laid  out  as  pleasure  grounds  is  much 
frequented,  good  boating  being  obtainable 
at  Willand's  Pond.  In  the  course  of  nature, 
resting  places  for  the  dead  must  be  set 
apart.  Pine  Hill  Cemetery  was  granted  to 
the  city  for  burial  purposes,  March  29, 1731, 
and  is  at  present  tinder  the  careful  man- 
agement and  solicitous  care  of  a  board 
of  five  trustees,  one  of  whose  members 
is  elected  annually  by  the  board  of  trustees 


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and  board  of  aldermen  in  convention,  the 
mayor  being  a  member  ex-officio.  The 
other  cemeteries  are  St.  Mary's  old  ceme- 
tery, on  Stark  avenue,  and  the  new  ceme- 
tery of  St.  Mary's  on  the  Dover  Point  road. 

HISTORICAL,  LITERARY    AND    SOCIAL    INSTITU- 
TIONS, ETC. 

Among  the  most  prominent  of  these  may 
be  mentioned  the  Dover  Historical  Society, 
the    Public    Library,    the   Young    Men's 
Catholic  Literary  Society  and  the  Bellamy 
Club.   In  the  matter  of  secret,  benevolent, 
fraternal  and  social   societies  the  various 
degrees    of    Masonry,    Odd    Fellowship, 
Knights       o  f 
Pythias,  Elks,      ^~ 
Red  Men  and 
others  are  lib- 
erally    repre- 
sented,   and 
have   a    large 
mem  bership. 
There    are 
several    social 
clubs,      and 
numerous 
musical,  labor, 
legal,     frater- 
nal, press, 
medical,  tem- 
perance,   po- 
litical,military 
and     school 
organizations, 
Y.  M.  C.  A., 
G.  A.  R.,  Sons 
of     Veterans, 
Women's  Re- 
lief Corps,  etc. 

CHARITABLE    INSTITUTIONS. 

The  buildings  of  the  Wentworth  home 
for  the  aged  have  recently  been  completed 
at  a  cost  of  $15,000.  The  home  is  named 
for  Hon.  Arioch  Wentworth,  of  Boston, 
whose  birthplace  is  in  the  immediate  vi- 
cinity, and  who  generously  donated  $  1 0,000 
for  its  erection  and  equipment  and  sub- 
sequently gave  $20,000  towards  a  per- 
manent fund.  It  contains  twenty-three 
sleeping  apartments,  and  seven  other 
rooms  used  as  parlors,  dining-room,  pantry 
and  matron's  room.  The  Hayes  hospital, 
for  the  endowment  of  which  Mrs.  Clara  A. 


THE  MASONIC  TEMPLE 


L.  McD.  Hayes  left  $50,000  will  shortly 
be  in  operation.  The  Children's  home  re- 
cently completed  at  an  expenditure  of 
$15,000  will  accommodate  forty  homeless 
orphans  and  destitute  children.  There  is 
also  the  Orphan's  home  under  the  control 
of  St.  Mary's  parish  church  and  in  charge 
of  the  Sisters  of  mercy.  For  those  less 
fortunate  than  their  fellows  the  county 
farm  provides  accommodation  at  the  city's 
expense,  and  is  also  used  as  a  reformatory. 


The  police  force  of  the  city  is  under  the 
control  of  the  Mayor  and  City  Councils  and 
is  under  the 
|  direction  of  a 
marshal  and 
assistant  mar- 
shal. The  pa- 
trol consists  of 
two  day,  and 
six  night  men, 
placed  in  the 
business  and 
resi  d  e  n  t  i  a  1 
sec  t  i  o  n  s  to 
the  best  ad- 
vantage. Al- 
though the 
tenure  of  the 
entire  force  is 
upon  an  an- 
n  u  a  1  basis, 
changes  are 
rarely  made, 
the  services  of 
most  of  the 
officers  and 
the  patrol  ex- 
tending over  a  period  of  years.  The  able 
and  unbiased  work  for  which  the  force  is 
noted  has  its  reward  in  continued  in- 
cumbency of  office. 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 

The  fire  department  is  thoroughly 
efficient,  and  reflects  much  credit  upon 
the  city.  It  is  under  the  control  of  the 
city  councils,  who  elect  a  chief  engineer 
and  two  assistants.  There  are  three  hose 
companies,  a  hook  and  ladder  company, 
and  the  hydrant  service  is  augmented  by 
three  steamers,  one  of  which  is  always  in 


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commission.  There  are  also  three  hose 
wagons,  one  hose  reel,  one  supply  wagon, 
and  one  hand  engine  which  is  located  at 
the  city  farm.  The  city  is  covered  with 
the  fire  alarm  telegraph  system,  twenty- 
nine  alarm  boxes,  three  tower  strikers  and 
one  steam  gong  being  placed  at  con- 
venient points  throughout  the  city.  There 
are  thirteen  hydrants  for  steamers,  and 
twenty-six  reservoirs  and  the  water  supply 
is  adequate  to  any  demand  made  upon  it, 
ranging  from  60  to  125  pounds  pressure. 

THE   DOVER   PUBLIC    LIBRARY. 

Back  in  the  days  before  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  when  New  Hampshire 
was  still  an  English  colony,  there  existed 
in  Dover  a  Social  Library  which  numbered 
among  its  membership  the.best  citizens  of 
the  town.  This  Library  was  incorporated 
in  1792,  the  only  year  that  the  Legislature 
ever  convened  at  Dover,  and  was  the  first 
incorporated  Social  Library  in  the  State. 
It  was  the  predecessor,  if  not  the  ancestor, 
of  the  circulating  libraries  which  later 
served  the  reading  needs  of  the  people 
and  of  the  corporate  body  known  as  the 
Dover  Library,  which  was  formed  in 
1850. 

As  early  as  1856, — the  Boston  Public 
Library  was  founded  only  six  years  earlier, 
— the  suggestion  was  made  in  the  librari- 
an's annual  report,  E.  J.  Lane  being  then 
librarian,  that  the  library  should  be  made 
public  and  "  worthy  of  the  city."  Similar 
suggestions  followed  as  years  went  on  and 
public  sentiment  in  favor  of  the  change 
increased  until  January,  1883,  when  in  his 
inaugural  address  as  mayor  of  the  city,  Dr. 
James  E.  Lothrop  brought  the  matter  ac- 
tively before  the  city  government.  Action 
was  at  once  taken.  A  contract  was  made 
by  the  city,  with  the  Dover  Library,  under 
the  terms  of  which  the  city  agreed  to  pro- 
vide for  the  necessary  expenses  of  the 
Library  perpetually,  and  the  Dover  Li- 
brary turned  over  to  the  city  about  5000 
volumes  and  $2432.10  in  cash.  The 
money  was  the  principal  and  interest  of  a 
bequest  made  by  Mr.  William  N.  Andrews, 
a  merchant  of  this  city,  who  had  hoped 
that  the  gift  might  aid  in  the  establishment 
of  a  Public  Library.  The  legacy  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  James  W. 


Bartlett  as  trustee  and  kept  for  the  pur- 
pose the  giver  desired. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Dover 
Public  Library  as  first  organized  was  as 
follows  : — James  E.  Lothrop,  Mayor,  Trus- 
tee ex-officio.  John  C.  Pray,  President  of 
the  Common  Council,  Trustee  ex-officio. 
Jeremiah  Smith,  Joshua  G.  Hall,  Z.  S. 
Wallingford,  T.  B.  Garland  from  the  Do- 
ver Library.  Joshua  L.  Foster,  John  T. 
Welch,  Martin  S.  Hutchings  from  the  city. 
President,  James  E.  Lothrop ;  Secretary', 
John  T.  Welch  ;  Treasurer,  Frank  Freeman. 

The  first  librarian  was  Mr.  T.  B.  Gar- 
land who  after  five  months  service  resigned, 
and  his  daughter,  the  present  librarian, 
until  then  acting  as  assistant,  was  ap- 
pointed. Miss  Beatrice  M.  Jenkins,  who 
had  been  temporary  assistant  was  made 
first  assistant,  a  position  which  she  still 
holds.  In  1887  the  growth  of  the  Library 
demanded  a  second  assistant,  and  Miss 
Stella  Smith  received  the  appointment. 
She  was  succeeded  by  Miss  Alice  O.  Fol- 
som,  and  in  September,  1889,  Miss  Ida  F. 
Hollingvvorth,  the  present  cataloguer,  took 
the  place.  A  third  assistant  has  now  be- 
come necessary  and  Miss  Bessie  I.  Parker 
has  been  promoted  from  temporary  to 
permanent  assistant. 

The  story  of  the  Library  is  a  story  of 
steady  growth.  When  it  opened  to  the 
public  in  January,  1 884,  it  contained  about 
5000  volumes.  It  has  now  23,000  vol- 
umes. During  its  first  year  50,200  books 
were  loaned  for  home  use,  a  number  then 
far  in  excess  of  any  other  library  in  the 
State.  Last  year  73,500  books  were 
given  out,  and  the  proportion  of  fiction 
and  juvenile  reading  had  decreased  from 
78  to  65  per  cent.  Systematic  co-opera- 
tion is  kept  up  between  the  public  schools 
and  the  library,  and  in  many  schoo's 
pupils  are  now  trained  to  an  intelligent 
use  of  books  as  part  of  their  education. 

The  Library  has  always  been  dependent 
upon  the  city  for  its  maintenance  and  each 
year  the  City  Councils  reckon  it  in  among 
the  necessary  expenses  and  give  to  it  as 
large  a  sum  as  possible.  In  1888  a  be- 
quest of  one  thousand  dollars  came  to  it 
by  the  will  of  Dr.  T.  J.  W.  Pray  and  in 
1896,  one  of  two  thousand  by  the  will  of 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hale  Jaques.  Nearly  four 


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hundred  volumes  of  the  Law  Library  were 
the  gift  of  the  estate  of  Frank  Hobbs. 

The  Historical  room  contains  the  local 
history  that  the  Library  has  been  collect- 
ing, comprising  files  of  early  newspapers, 
nearly  all  the  town  histories  of  the  State, 
the  Provincial  Papers  and  many  works  of 
great  historical  and  genealogical  value. 
The  Reading  Room  has  on  its  tables  about 
a  hundred  periodicals  and  papers  and  to- 
gether with  the  Reference  Library  and  the 
Law  Library  is  open  to  all. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  have  always  been 
men  of  high  standing  in  the  community. 
They  have  made  as  few  restrictions  as 
possible  in  the  use  of  the  Library,  deem- 
ing it  for  the  best  interests  of  the  city  that 
a  policy  of  wide  freedom  should  prevail. 
Free  access  to  books,  excellent  catalogue 
facilities,  and  willing  service  are  the  prin- 
ciples upon  which  the  Library  has  been 
conducted,  and  which  will  insure  its  use- 
fulness in  the  future. 

DOVER    COMMERCIAL    CLUB. 

The  Dover  Commercial  Club  was  or- 
ganized in  1896,  with  a  membership  of 
125,  its  first  president  being  Colonel  A. 
T.  Peirce.  It  is  a  body  of  representative 
citizens  who  will  gladly  communicate  with 
those  having  unemployed  capital  and  who 
are  interested  in  the  establishment  of 
manufactories,  and  will  aid  all  new  enter- 
prises of  sterling  worth  that  will  advance 
Dover's  commercial  prestige,  increase  her 
population  and  benefit  the  community. 
Seldom,  if  ever,  has  such  an  earnest  de- 
sire been  expressed  to  direct  capital  and 
manufacturing  industries  here  as  at  present. 
The  objects  of  the  (.  ommercial  Club  are 
to  inculcate  just  and  equitable  principles 
in  trade  ;  to  acquire,  preserve  and  dissem- 
inate valuable  business  information ;  to 
protect  and  foster  the  mercantile  and 
manufacturing  industries ;  to  promote  the 
commerce  of  Dover  and  its  general  pros- 
perity by  the  solicitation  of  manufacturing 
and  business  enterprises  to  locate  within 
its  boundaries  :  the  continuous  promulga- 
tion of  the  advantages  possessed  by  Dover 
as  a  desirable  place  for  the  employment 
of  capital ;  the  extension  of  facilities  for 
transportation  and  the  protection  of  the 
trade  of  the  city.  They  have  actively  and 


practically  encouraged  the  location  of 
manufacturing  enterprises  of  all  kinds  by 
offering  to  have  exempted  from  taxa- 
tion for  a  period  of  five  years  all  manu- 
facturing industries  locating  here.  All 
that  is  essential  is  that  those  who  avail 
themselves  of  these  inducements  be  men 
possessing  thorough  practical  and  techni- 
cal knowledge  of  the  business  they  propose 
to  undertake.  The  present  officers  of  the 
Commercial  Club  are  : — President,  Thom- 
as H.  Dearborn ;  Directors,  Jas.  E.  Lo- 
throp,  Valentine  Mathes,  A.  C.  Place, 
Henry  Law,  J.  Frank  Seavey,  Frank  N. 
French  and  George  E.  Buzzell ;  Secretary, 
George  D.  Barrett. 

DOVER    NAVIGATION    CO. 

The  Dover  Navigation  Company  was 
organized  in  1878,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$13,121.92  which  was  increased  from 
time  to  time  until  in  1889  it  reached  the 
sum  of  $212, 6 26. 73.  The  company  was 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  building  vessels 
and  engaging  in  the  coasting  trade,  and 
their  ships  have  since  been  carrying  'car- 
goes between  ports  on  the  Atlantic  sea- 
board, the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  the  West 
Indies  and  South  America.  The  original 
board  of  management  consisted  of  Colonel 
John  Bracewell,  President,  C.  H.  Trickey, 
Thomas  B.  Garland,  J.  Frank  Seavey  and 
B.  Frank  Nealley.  A  new  vessel  was  built 
each  year  until  the  company  owned  ten. 
Of  these  three  were  sold,  two  lost  and  five 
are  still  engaged  in  the  coastwise  carrying 
trade,  carrying  mostly  lumber  and  coal. 
The  capital  stock  of  the  company  is  at 
present  $104,522.21,  and  between  July 
1878  and  July  1898,  $238,110.66  has 
been  returned  to  the  stockholders  in  divi- 
dends. Of  the  original  capital,  $62,600 
has  been  returned.  The  company  has 
done  much  to  promote  and  stimulate  the 
commerce  of  the  city  which  has  derived 
decided  advantages  from  the  success  of 
the  undertaking. 

DOVER    IMPROVEMENT    ASSOCIATION. 

The  object  of  this  institution,  in  brief, 
is  the  promotion  of  the  welfare  and  pros- 
perity of  the  city  by  bringing  to  it  valuable 
industries  which  can  not  fail  to  be  of  in- 
estimable value  in  building  up  its  com- 


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mercial  supremacy.  Through  its  labors 
two  large  shoe  shops  have  been  added  to 
the  manufactories  already  in  operation. 
The  pay  rolls  of  these  companies  alone 
amount  to  several  thousand  dollars  a 
month,  and  employment  is  given  to  a  large 
number  of  persons,  thus  adding  consider- 
ably to  the  prosperity  and  well-being  of 
the  city.  The  Association  had  its  incep- 
tion in  1885,  when  it  was  organized  with 
a  capital  of  $50,000.  Hon.  J.  E.  Lothrop 
is  president  and  Thomas  B.  Garland  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer.  In  1885  the  Asso- 
ciation built  the  large  five  story  brick 
factory  measuring  200x45,  now  occupied 
by  T-  H.  Ireland  &  Co.  of  Newburyport, 
Mass.,  who  hold  it  rent  free  for  a  term  of 


circumstances  to  arrest  its  growth,  either 
as  a  place  of  business  or  residence.  The 
past  of  Dover  having  furnished  a  record 
of  continuous  and  sustained  growth  it  is  a 
fair  presumption  that  the  future  will  pre- 
sent results  of  proportionate  advance  or 
even  accelerated  expansion.  In  the  util- 
ization of  all  the  resources  which  nature 
has  furnished  or  science  unveiled,  there  is 
every  reason  to  believe  that  Dover  will  be 
fully  abreast  with  the  most  progressive 
cities.  It  has  no  lack  of  men  with  busi- 
ness sagacity  equal  to  the  improvement  of 
every  opportunity,  and  it  is  safe  to  pre- 
dict that  the  industries  of  the  future  will 
be  able  to  point  back  to  those  of  today  as 
the  auspicious  beginnings  of  a  greater 


STRAFFORD  COUNTY  JAIL. 


ten  years.  The  second  factory  was  built 
in  1894,  and  is  a  four  story  wooden  struc- 
ture measuring  150x45,  now  occupied  by 
Charles  E.  Moulton,  shoe  manufacturer,  at 
a  very  low  rental.  The  establishment  of 
this  Association  is  an  instance  of  the  pro- 
gressive and  enterprising  spirit  which  pre- 
vails among  our  citizens,  who  are  ever 
on  the  alert  to  materially  advance  the 
city's  best  interests  and  offer  inducements 
of  a  substantial  nature  to  manufacturers  and 
capitalists  to  locate  their  business  in  Dover. 

PROSPECTS  FOR  THE  FUTURE. 

The  location  of  Dover  is  one  which  ren- 
ders it  impossible  for  any  combination  of 


and  brighter  destiny.  The  present  of 
Dover  is  magnificent  and  full  of  promise. 
Its  natural  advantages  were  never  better 
supplemented  by  its  acquired  resources 
for  the  development  of  its  progress  than 
they  are  today.  It  is  the  home  of  intel- 
lectual vigor,  wealth,  manufactures  and 
commerce,  with  a  past  full  of  interest,  a 
present  full  of  earnestness  and  a  future  full 
of  brightness  and  continued  prosperity. 


Wentworth  Home  for  the  Aged. 

The  Wentworth  Home  for  the  Aged, 
that  new  and  beautiful  edifice,  a  most 
modern  structure  situated  in  the  northern 


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33 


extremity  of  Central  avenue,  was  dedi- 
cated on  Saturday  afternoon,  June  25th, 
1898,  with  due  ceremony  and 
exercises  befitting  the  occasion. 
It  will  stand  as  a  monument  for 
generations  to  come  to  the 
memory  of  that  distinguished 
philanthropist,  Mr.  Arioch 
Wentworth  of  Boston,  whose 
munificent  gift  it  was.  The 
citizens  of  Dover  may  well  feel 
proud  of  such  a  worthy  institu- 
tion, second  to  none  of  its  kind 
in  the  State  where  her  citizens 
when  homeless  and  helpless, 
with  the  infirmities  of  old  age 
creeping  upon  them,  will  have 
as  their  home  a  place  where 
they  can  rest  assured  they  will  be  well 
cared  for.  Located  as  it  is  upon  a  health- 
ful elevation,  a  spot  where  no  better  at- 
mosphere can  be  desired,  looking  down 
from  its  majestic  height  and  in  its  absolute 
quietness  upon  the  busy  city  with  sur- 
roundings most  delightful  to  the  eye,  it  is 
safe  to  say 
that  a  more 
a  p  propriate 
site  could 
not  have 
been  se- 
1  e  c  t  e  d. 
Lands  cape 
g  a  r  d  e  n  ers 
through  the 
generosity  of 
Hon.  Frank 
Jones  have, 
with  skilled 
hands  beau- 
tified t  h  e 
grounds  and 
added  much 
to  their  gen- 
eral appear- 
ance. The 
Home  in  it- 
self is  a  modest  yet  imposing  structure 
every  room  of  which  is  now  elaborately 
furnished  and  ready  for  inmates. 

The  building  is  a  three-story  brick 
structure  with  granite  trimmings,  and  re- 
sembles somewhat  the  colonial  mansion  so 
common  in  this  part  of  New  England. 


ARIOCH  WENTWORTH. 


WENTWORTH   HOME. 


The  architect,  Alvah  T.  Ramsdell  of 
this  city,  designed  the  building  with  spec- 
ial reference  to  insuring  the 
ease  and  comfort  of  aged  peo- 
ple. The  building  is  70  by  53 
feet  in  dimension  and  contains 
30  rooms,  besides  toilet  and 
bathrooms.  A  hallway  extends 
through  the  entire  length  of  the 
building  and  opens  on  to  broad, 
sunny  verandas  at  either  end 
and  in  front. 

On  the  left  of  the  main  en- 
trance is  the  matron's  room  and 
library.  This  is  furnished  by 
Miss  Caroline  Wendell.  On 
the  right  are  the  reception  and 
sitting  rooms,  furnished  re- 
spectively by  the  daughters  of  the  late 
Hon.  Wm.  S.  Stevens  and  Mrs.  Judge 
Durell.  On  the  further  side  of  the  hall 
are  the  dining  room  and  kitchen,  each 
1 6xi  2  feet,  and  pantry. 

There  are  three  sleeping  rooms  on  the 
first  floor,  and  1 1  each  on  the  second  and 
third  floors. 
The  fur- 
nishings of 
the  sleep- 
ing rooms 
are  all  of 
the  same 
pattern 
though  o  f 
different 
shades  o  f 
carpets  and 
u  p  h  olster- 
ing.  They 
were  all  fur- 
nished by 
residents  as 
m  e  m  orials 
to  departed 
relatives. 

The  build- 
ing is  fin- 
ished in  oak  and  sycamore  and  the  walls 
are  tinted  in  warm  colors.  In  the  hall  is 
an  old  fashioned  tall  clock,  presented  by 
C.  W.  Demeritt,  and  a  piano,  the  gift  of 
Mrs.  J.  E.  Lothrop. 

Col.  Daniel  Hall  in  his  introductory  ad- 
dress outlined  the  history  of  the  movement 


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for  establishing  a  home  for  aged  people  in 
this  city.  He  said  in  part,  that  through 
the  efforts  of  Col.  Everett  O.  Foss  an  act 
was  passed  by  the  legislature  of  1883  in- 
corporating "  The  Dover  Home  for  Aged 
Women."  The  first  contribution  was  made 
on  Christmas  day,  1885,  when  14  mem- 
bers of  the  Bachelor  club  gave  Si  each  as 
a  Christmas  offer  to  start  a  fund.  Since 
then  gifts  have  been  made  by  individuals 
and  societies,  and  one  or  two  bequests.  In 
1897  a  gift  of  $10,000  was  made  by  Mr. 
Wentworth  for  the  purpose  of  building  a 
suitable  home,  and  in  recognition  of  this 
generous  aid  the  association  voted  to  name 
the  building  in  honor  of  the  donor,  calling 
it  the 
"Went- 
worth 
Home  for 
the  Aged." 

Before 
concluding 
his  address 
Col.  Hall 
a  n  nounced 
that  the  as- 
s  o  c  i  a  tion 
has  just  re- 
ceived from 
Mr.  Went- 
worth a  n  - 
other  gift  of 
§20,000  to 
be  used  as 
a  fund  for 
the  support 
of  the  home. 
The  news  was  received  with  the  greatest 
enthusiasm. 

The  contributions  to  a  Permanent  Fund 
are  as  follows  :  Mr.  Arioch  Wentworth,  Bos- 
ton, $20,000 ;  Mrs.  S.  K.  W.  Creighton, 
Newmarket,  $1,000;  Mrs.  Elizabeth  W. 
Stevens,  Boston,  $500;  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 
Drew,  I  )over,  8500  ;  M iss  Martha  E.  Han- 
son, Dover,  $500 ;  Mrs.  Deborah  Dunn, 
Dover,  Sioo. 

Mr.  Arioch  Wentworth  was  born  in 
Rollinsford,  just  over  the  Dover  line,  his 
birthplace  being  less  than  a  mile  from 
where  the  new  home  is  situated. 

The  officers  of  the  association  in  charge 
of  the  home  are  :  Joseph  B.  Sawyer,  pres. ; 


CHILDREN'S  HOME. 


Harrison  Haley  and  Thomas  B.  Garland, 
vice  pres. ;  Charles  S.  Cartland,  sec.  and 
treas. ;  Daniel  Hall,  auditor. 

There  is  a  board  of  twenty  trustees  of 
which  Elisha  R.  Brown  is  chairman,  an  ex- 
ecutive committee  of  one  hundred  mem- 
bers and  a  board  of  managers. 

The  Children's  Home. 
Few  fathers  and  mothers  situated  in 
beautiful  and  commodious  homes  with 
their  children  playing  about  their  knets 
think  of  the  many  little  waifs  in  this  city 
who  know  nothing  of  the  pleasures  of  even 
the  most  meagre  home,  I, or.'  thr ir  bene- 
fit and  in  their  honor  the  beautiful  build- 
ing on  Lo- 
cust street 
was  con- 
structed 
and  the  cit- 
izens of  this 
city  .realize 
the  grand 
work  tha  t 
the  manag- 
ers of  the 
Childre  n  '  s 
Home  have 
been  doing 
for  the  past 
few  years . 
The  edifice 
is  beautiful 
in  both  ex- 
terior and 
interior,  ar- 
ranged in 
accordance  with  the  best  sanitary  models, 
commodious  in  loom  and  handsomely  fin- 
ished. The  Home  contains  dining  and 
reception  rooms,  nursery,  boys'  and  girls' 
dormitory,  matron's  room  and  boys'  and 
girls'  play  rooms,  bath  rooms,  and  several 
large  sleeping  rooms.  On  the  third  floor  a 
room  has  been  finished  so  that  in  case  of 
any  contagious  disease  breaking  out  among 
the  children  it  can  be  closed  up  and  the 
patient  kept  from  the  other  children. 
This  room  has  been  nicely  fitted  up  for 
sickness  and  has  a  bath  room  and  many 
other  conveniences. 

Several  of  the  rooms  at  the  Home  have 
been  furnished  by  the  following  persons  : 


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Reception  room/Mrs.  John  P.  Hale  ;  as- 
sembly room,  Mrs.  John  S.  Glass  ;  dining 
room,  Miss  Caroline  Wendell.  The  nur- 
sery room  has  been  furnished  by  the  Miz- 
pah  club  of  the  First  church.  Many  other 
articles  have  been  donated  by  generous 
persons  for  the  other  rooms. 

In  the  basement  of  the  building  is  a 
large  store  room  and  place  for  the  coal. 
At  the  rear  is  a  well  arranged  laundry  with 
set  of  boilers  and  laundry  heaters.  The 
building  is  heated  by  steam,  there  being 
a  radiator  in  every  room.  A.  T.  Ramsdell 
was  the  architect  who  designed  the  build- 
ing, the  corner  stone  of  which  was  laid  on 
Saturday,  Oct.  9,  1897,  with  appropriate 
ceremonies.  The  contract  was  given  to 
E.  H.  Frost  on  Aug.  30,  1897, for  $9,849. 
He  has  done  an  excellent  piece  of  work  on 


sponded  in  accepting  the  keys.  There 
was  then  reading  of  the  Scripture  by  Rev. 
E.  A.  Hoyt,  pastor  of  the  Pierce  Memo- 
rial church,  and  singing.  Rev.  I.  W. 
Beard  then  formally  dedicated  the  build- 
ing using  the  Episcopal  service  provided 
for  such  occasions.  Prayer  was  offered 
by  Rev.  George  E.  Hall,  D.  D.,  followed 
by  singing  by  the  children  of  the 
home. 

Appropriate  remarks  were  then  made  by 
Rev.  D.  C.  Babcock  and  Rev.  R.  E.  Gil- 
key,  and  the  service  closed  by  singing 
the  Doxology. 

Among  the  gifts  to  the  Children's 
Home  have  been  $5,000  from  Mr.  Arioch 
Wentworth  of  Boston,  $5,000  from  W. 
H.  Morton,  wife  and  daughter  of  Salmon 
Falls,  $500  from  Mrs.  David  L.  Drew  of 


CENTRAL  SQUARE. 


the  structure.  The  building  commit- 
tee who  have  had  charge  of  the  work 
have  attended  to  their  duties  faithfully 
and  are  deserving  of  much  praise.  The 
committee  is  as  follows :  W.  S.  Bradley, 
J.  Herbert  Richardson,  Hon.  James  E. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Susan  E.  Young,  Mrs. 
Lydia  E.  Jones,  Mrs.  Ellen  F.  Carter  and 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  G.  Williams.  The  dedi- 
cation occurred  Saturday  afternoon,  May 
28,  1898,  and  the  exercises  were  very  ap- 
propriate, being  of  a  religious  character. 
At  four  o'clock  the  exercises  opened 
with  invocation  by  Rev.  W.  H.  S.  Hascall. 
The  keys  of  the  house  were  then  delivered 
10  the  president  of  the  society  by  \V.  S. 
Bradley,  the  chairman  of  the  building 
committee,  in  a  few  appropriate  remarks. 
The  president,  Mrs.  Susan  E.  Young,  re- 


Dover,  and  numerous  lesser  gifts  from 
persons  interested  in  the  institution.  The 
home  is  now  in  complete  working  order, 
about  thirty  children  being  cared  for  and 
trained  to  careers  of  usefulness.  The 
benefits  of  such  an  institution  as  this  in 
the  community  cannot  be  over-estimated 
and  it  is  safe  to  assert  that  the  children 
who  spend  their  early  lives  in  the  Home 
will  acquire  habits  of  thrift  and  honesty 
which  cannot  fail  to  exercise  a  most,  salu- 
tary effect  upon  their  future  lives,  "i". 

The  urgent  need  of  such  an  institution 
as  this  has  long  been  felt  in  the  city  and 
the  carrying  out  of  the  project  to  erect 
and  maintain  the  Children's  Home  is  one 
which  reflects  the  greatest  credit  upon 
our  citizens  who  have  so  liberally  contrib- 
uted towards  this  humanitarian  work. 


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Foster's  £>aily  Democrat. 

GEO.  J.  FOSTER  &  Co.,  Proprietors. 
DOVER,  N.  H.,  JUNE  18,  1898. 

Twenty-five  years  ago  to-day,  the  first 
issue  of  Foster's  Daily  Democrat  appeared 
in  Dover.  It  was  a  small  four  page  sheet 
22x25,  a  tuly  beginner  with  a  somewhat 
dubious  future  before  it,  but  plucky  and 
courageous,  defiant  and  confident  in  the 
face  of  all  obstacles  and  determined  to 
succeed.  1 1 
started  with 
140  subscrib- 
ers and  150 
copies  were 
sold  to  those 
who  chose  to 
buy  them, — 
290  copies 
comprised  the 
total  circula- 
tion. But 
the  editor, 
Joshua  L. 
Foster  was 
not  without 
newspaper  ex- 
perience and 
he  thought  he 
could  see 
ahead  clearly 
enough  a 
much  better 
condition  not 
a  great  way  in 
the  distance, 
and  the  result 
has  been  no 
d  is  appoint- 
ment. The 
editor's  salu- 
tation to  th'e 
public  in  the 
first  issue  June  18,  1873,  was  as  follows  : 

"  We  have  very  little  to  say  in  ventur- 
ing this  daily  experiment  in  Dover.  It  is 
a  new  thing  here,  but  not  a  new  business 
with  us  who  take  the  risk  and  the  respon- 
sibility. It  is  an  experiment  which  may 
or  may  not  prove  a  success,  as  this  de- 
pends upo  n  the  energy  and  ability  mani- 
fested in  i  ts  conduct,  and  the  alacrity  and 
persistenc  y  with  which  the  people  come 


JOSHUA  L.  FOSTER,  EDITOR 


up  to  its  support.  We  shall  strive  to  fulfill 
our  part,  and  expect  the  public  to  sustain 
our  efforts  with  their  patronage.  Dover 
is  the  only  city  in  New  Hampshire  that 
has  hitherto  had  no  daily  paper.  Concord, 
Nashua  and  Portsmouth  each  have  about 
the  same  population  as  this  city,  and  each 
supports  two  daily  papers.  It  is  certain 
that  Dover  and  its  immediate  vicinity 
ought  to  support  one.  There  is  nothing 
that  can  give  so  much  life,  pleasure  and 
real,  substan- 
t  ial  good 
character  to  a 
place  as  a 
lively  and  well 
con  ducted 
daily  news- 
paper. W  e 
shall  devote 
these  columns 
mainly  to  the 
material  and 
vital  interests 
of  Dover  and 
vicinity. 
Whatever  may 
tend  to  bene- 
fit this  people 
and  enhance 
their  prosper- 
ity, will  re- 
c  e  i  v  e  our 
warm  and  en- 
thusiastic sup- 
port. This 
paper  starts 
with  very  flat- 
tering pros- 
pects, and  if 
we  receive  the 
continued  en- 
courageme  n  t 
which  ought 
to  be  given  to  a  properly  conducted  en- 
terprise of  the  kind,  we  shall  make  this 
daily  an  enduring  institution  in  Dover.  It 
is  for  the  people  to  say  how  this  shall  be. 
Our  weekly  is  a  success.  Shall  this  be  the 
same?  " 

The  experience  of  the  paper  the  edi- 
tor gives  as  follows: — "Flattering  pros- 
pects "  indeed  !  Everybody  laughed  and 
hooted  at  the  idea,  while  pretty  nearly 


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A  CORNER  IN  THE  EDITORIAL  ROOM. 


A  SECTION  OF  THE  BUSINESS  OFFICE, 


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39 


everybody  hoped'  for  the  success  of  the 
venture,  although  they  didn't  believe  it 
would  live  over  three  months.  The  exper- 
iment had  been  tried  two  or  three  times 
before  and  failed.  \Ve  said  it  was  because 
the  experimenters  didn't  know  their  bus- 
iness. Our  faith  was  a  good  deal  like  the 
grain  of  mustard  seed  we  had  read  about, 
although  rather  faint  at  times.  Flattering 
prospects  !  O  yes,  very  flattering — 140 
subscribers,  half  of  whom  had  not  paid 
a  cent,  and 
150  more  sold 
for  which  we 
got  a  cent 
and  a  half 
apiece  — 
$2.25  ready 
cash  fro  m 
those  sales.  It 
was  a  big 
thing,  a  very 
b  i  g  thing, 
with  wonder- 
fully "  flatter- 
i  n  g  p  r  o  s- 
pects"  ahead. 
We  had  a 
little  advertis- 
ing at  prices 
so  small  as  to 
be  hardly 
seen  with  the 
naked  eye. 
The  editor 
was  alone  in 
h  i  s  calcula- 
t  i  o  n  s  and 
management. 
H  e-  had  no 
financial  re- 
sources, hav- 
ing lost  all  in 
a  previous 
venture.  He  had  friends,  some  of  whom 
helped  a  little  and  others  not  a  cent.  He 
had  two  sons,  George  J.  and  Charles  G., 
neither  of  them  old  enough  to  do  the 
business,  but  both  had  learned  to  set  up 
type  and  were  very  effective  help  in  that 
way.  Notwithstanding  the  alleged  "  flat- 
tering prospects  "  it  was  up  hill  work. 
We  had  to  hire  help,  buy  paper,  pay  rents, 
support  a  family  and  all  that. 


GEO.  J.  FOSTER,  BUSINESS  MANAGER. 


The  weekly  paper  started  a  year  and  a 
half  before  was  doing  tolerably  well,  al- 
though we  had  to  trust  nearly  everybody, 
get  the  pay  when  we  could,  and  lots  of  it 
we  never  got  at  all.  Things  went  on  how- 
ever, gaining  gradually  on  the  whole, 
barely  perceptible,  but  still  slightly  mov- 
ing ahead,  hardly  keeping  square,  but 
doing  the  best  we  could.  The  circulation 
improved  slowly,  kept  on  growing  a  little 
larger,  and  we  kept  on  pegging  away.  We 
sent  out  can- 
vassers and 
they  brought 
in  a  few  ducats, 
but  we  had 
awful  hard 
work  for  many 
years ;  some- 
times  ex- 
tremely blue, 
because  the 
help  must  be 
paid,  the 
paper  bills 
must  be  met, 
and  we  didn't 
know  how,  nor 
where  to  get 
the  money. 
Although  a 
democrat  i  n 
those  days,  we 
h  a  d  a  con- 
science and 
were  disposed 
t  o  show  i  t 
some  respect. 
Of  course  this 
being  the  case, 
we  disagreed 
with  the  party 
leaders  in 
some  things 
and  there  was  a  rupture  which  at  the  time 
boded  no  good  to  us.  Still  we  spoke  our 
mind  freely,  just  as  though  we  didn't  care 
a  pin,  and  told  lots  of  homely  truths  about 
the  men  who  tried  to  put  a  ring  in  our 
nose  and  run  our  thinking  as  well  as 
printing  apparatus.  They  imported  a 
lurid  warrior,  bristling  with  flaming  dag- 
gers who  started  another  paper  to  destroy 
us,  but  new  friends  rallied  around  us, 


4o 


DOVER  J623-J893 


COMPOSING  ROOM. 


PRESS  ROOM,  SHOWING  GOS8  WEB  PERFECTING  PRESS. 


DOVER  \  623-  J  898 


more  practical  a'nd  less  selfish  than  those 
we  had  before,  and  we  "  went  for  "  the 
false  ones  red  hot  which  they  soon  found 
out.  Instead  of  going  down,  we  took  the 
road  up,  and  up  we  went.  When  that 
fight  was  over  and  we  had  gathered  up, 
laid  out  and  buried  the  dead,  we  had  more 
friends  and  a  little  more  money  than  be- 
fore. But  still  we  were  in  the  financial 
swamp  and  had  a  struggle  to  keep  head 
above  ground.  And  there  we  waded  and 
paddled  o  n 
until  the  pres- 
idential year 
1880  came 
along  a  n  d 
some  of  the 
then  oppos- 
ing political 
brethren 
started  a 
compel  ing 
daily,  the  Re- 
publican, to 
divide  with  us 
the  enormous 
profits  w  e 
were  gather- 
i  n  g  in.  It 
was  only  for 
the  campaign, 
but  when 
that  was  over 
i  t  changed 
hands  and 
they  con- 
eluded  to 
keep  it  run- 
ning. And 
from  this 
point  dates 
the  turn  of 
the  tide  with 
the  DAILY 
DEMOCRAT. 

Meanwhile,  during  those  weary  years  of 
anxiety  and  toil,  for  nothing  but  a  bare 
living  without  a  dollar  ahead  for  a  rainy 
day,  the  two  sons  had  been  getting  along 
to  maturer  years  and  had  learned  to  do 
the  business.  They  too  had  been  schooled 
and  had  profited  by  it.  A  year  or  two 
later  all  the  financial  and  business  affairs 
of  the  concern  were  turned  over  to  the 


CHARLES  G.   FOSTER,  ASSOCIATE  EDITOR. 


older  one  George  J.,  while  the  younger, 
Charles  G.,  took  charge  of  and  superin- 
tended the  departments  of  the  interior. 
The  paper  had  once  been  enlarged  and  it 
was  then  enlarged  again.  They  went  to 
business  as  the  editor  had  never  been  able 
to  do,  because  editorial  and  business 
duties  could  not  all  be  properly  attended 
to  by  one  man.  The  editor  can  write  the 
English  language  with  reasonable  accuracy, 
run  a  tilt  with  an  adversary  in  sufficiently 
effective  fash- 
ion and  make 
himself  under- 
stood by  the 
common  run 
of  intelligent 
mankind,  but 
i  n  financial 
and  general 
executive 
management , 
the  two  sons 
take  the  lead. 
The  younger 
of  them  has 
for  the  past 
two  years 
acted  the  im- 
portant part 
o  f  assistant 
editor  and 
done  good 
work  in  that 
capacity. 

As  we  have 
said,  from  the 
establishment 
of  a  compet- 
ing paper  and 
the  turning 
over  of  the 
business  man- 
agement t  o 

the  sons  of  the  editor,  the  paper  took  on 
new  life  and  soon  bounded  to  the  front. 
The  nominal  competition  put  us  all  "more 
on  our  muscle,"  as  such  things  generally 
do,  and  the  circulation  and  advertising 
showed  it  at  once.  The  editorial  de- 
partment, the  news  department  and  the 
business  department  were  all  better  man- 
aged and  run,  and  have  been  ever  since 
as  our  success  fully  proves.  Soon  after 


DOVER  J623-1893 


CYLINDER  PRESS  ROOM. 


JOB  PRESS  ROOM. 


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43 


these  things  happened,  the  democratic 
party  in  1885  succeeded  to  the  executive 
power  in  the  nation,  but  with  no  honor 
to  itself  or  the  country.  So  false  and  un- 
American  was  its  policy,  so  cowardly  and 
perfidious  were  its  leaders  that  the  con- 
tinuance of  our  adhesion  and  support  in- 
volved the  loss  of  the  confidence  of  the 
better  portions  of  the  community,  and,  of 
more  importance  still,  if  possible,  the  sac- 
rifice of  our  self  respect.  As  was  our 
clearest  right,  we  took  our  own  course, 
and  the  public  support  we  have  since  re- 
ceived is  the  best  evidence  that  we  made 
no  mistake. 

The  DAILY  DEMO- 
CRAT is  the  pioneer  of 
local  newspaper  work 
in  the  State.  The  first 
to  adopt  and  make 
conspicuous  the 
purely  local  feature 
in  that  work,  employ- 
ing special  local  re- 
porters to  gather  in 
all  home  transactions 
worthy  of  note,  thus 
securing  and  holding 
the  local  attention  and 
support,  it  has  lived 
to  see  all  others  fol- 
low its  example  and 
adopt  this  feature 
which  they  never 
thought  of  before,  and 
it  really  gives  the 
most  important  and 
essential  value  to  the 
local  journals  every- 
where. Also  the  first 
to  bring  into  the  state  the  telegraphic 
news  service  of  the  American  Press  As- 
sociation, it  has  seen  all  others  follow  on 
until  that  too  covers  the  entire  field.  To 
this  we  have  also  added  the  very  latest 
Associated  Press  service  which  has  become 
the  very  conspicuous  feature  of  our  daily 
editions,  furnishing,  as  it  does,  the  latest 
telegraphic  news  possible  for  our  people 
to  obtain  and  read  at  their  homes  each 
night  when  the  labors  of  the  day  are 
closed.  So  now,  being  the  most  profi- 
table and  best  newspaper  property,  with 
one  of  the  best  office  plants  in  the  state, 


FRANK  P.   WALDRON,  CITY  EDITOR. 


on  we  go.  There  is  no  such  word  as  fail 
or  halt  in  this  concern.  Nothing  but  the 
best  will  ever  satisfy  us  and  that  we  shall 
have,  cost  what  it  may. 

From  a  very  small  beginning  as  we  have 
related,  with  second  hand  printing  material, 
presses  and  type  badly  worn,    purchased 
on  credit  and  paid  for  in  installments,  as 
best  we  could,  and  the  one  man  sinews  as 
the  power  to  turn  the  wheel  about  400  an 
hour,  sweating,  panting  and  foaming  as  he 
applied  his  muscle   at    the    crank ;  from 
this  delightful  state  of  things  we  have  gone 
on  to  what  is  seen  today.     Five  times  has 
the    paper   been    en- 
larged and  four  times 
have  new  presses  and 
additional      steam 
power  been  purchased 
to  do  our  newspaper 
printing  until  we  now 
have  one  of  the  latest 
improved,    fast    run- 
ning   web   perfecting 
stereotype        presses, 
capable  of  turning  out 
10,000     copies      per 
hour  of  perfect  papers 
printed  on  both  sides 
from  stereotype  plates, 
cut,     folded     and 
counted   all   at  once. 
And    the   paper  has 
grown  in  size  and  cir- 
culation    until    it     is 
now    an    eight   page 
seven  columns  to  the 
page    sheet,     35x47, 
with      supplements 
when  necessary,  hav- 
ing a  daily  circulation  of   from   3500    to 
7000,  depending  on  the  character  of  the 
news  and  the  height  of  public  excitement ; 
on  some  occasions  it  goes  as  high  as  10,000 
copies.     The  circulation  reaches  out  into 
all   the   neighboring   towns  and  cities  in 
New  Hampshire  and  Maine,  to  a  constit- 
uency of  some  60,000  people.      It  goes 
into  a  large  majority  of  the  families  in  a 
circuit   of   25    miles,    principally    to    the 
north,  east  and  west  of  the  office  of  publi- 
cation, and  has  come  to  be  the  chief  re- 
liance   for    local,  city   and    county  news. 
The  circulation  is  constantly    increasing, 


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notably  since  the  war  with  Spain  has 
been  the  chief  topic  of  public  interest. 
From  steam  we  have  changed  to  electric 
power,  and  it  requires  a  20  H.  P.  motor 
to  drive  our  machinery.  There  are  con- 
stantly employed  in  the  office  18  persons, 
and  also  connected  with  the  paper  are 
eight  reporters  and  correspondents,  and 
more  when  occasion  requires.  New  type 
has  been  several  times  provided  and  job 
presses  added  until  we  have  as  well 
equipped  a  printing  office  as  any  neces- 
sity requires.  A  poor  beggarly  concern 
has  grown  to  be  as  robust  and  stalwart  an 
institution  of  the  kind 
as  there  is  in  the  state 
or  anywhere  northerly 
or  easterly  of  Boston. 
It  has  all  come  from 
hard  work  and  earnest 
persistent  purpose  to 
meet  the  public  de- 
sires, to  reach  the 
popular  heart,  t  o 
serve  the  people,  to 
build  up  Dover  and 
its  near  community, 
and  always  champion 
what  seemed  to  be 
the  best  interests  of 
the  whole.  Now  here 
we  are  this  25th 
anniversary  day.  No 
previous  day  of  our 
life  ever  saw  the  DAILY 
DEMOCRAT  in  so  good, 
sound,  healthy  and 
growing  condition,  as 


serve  and  maintain  it  as  the  most  precious 
of  all  that  is  possible  to  enjoy  in  this  world. 
We  append  hereto  a  sketch  prepared 
by  the  late  Dr.  A.  H.  Quint  for  the  His- 
tory of  Rockingham  and  Strafford  coun- 
ties recently  published  : — 

"  Foster's  Democrat,"  a  weekly  news- 
paper, was  established  in  the  city  of 
Dover,  N.  H.,  in  January,  1872,  by 
George  J.  Foster  &  Co.,  and  has  been  is- 
sued on  Friday  of  each  week  ever  since. 
On  the  1 8th  of  June,  1873,  the  same  firm 
issued  the  first  number  of  Foster's  Daily 
Democrat.  On  these  journals  J.  L.  Fos- 
ter is  the  editor,  and 
his  two  sons,  George 
|.  and  Charles  G.,  are 
the  business  man- 
agers. The  daily  ven- 
ture was  made  as  an 
experiment,  the  suc- 
cess of  which  was  at 
that  time  generally 
considered  to  be  very 
doubtful.  But  the 
proprietors  decided  to 
push  it  at  all  hazards. 
They  thought  they 
knew  their  business, 
and  the  result  has 
proved  that  they  were 
not  mistaken.  Sev- 
eral previous  attempts 
had  been  made  by 
other  parties  to  es- 
tablish and  sustain  a 
daily  newspaper  in 
Dover,  but  they  had 


it  is  today.      Owning  PATRICK  MONE>  SOMERSWORTH  REPORTER,  always  failed  for  lack 


this  and  other  re- 
sources free  from  the  incubus  of  debt,  it 
is  booming  as  never  before,  and  is  a  con- 
stant reminder  of  the  rapid  and  important 
progress  which  a  quarter  century  can  ac- 
complish in  these  hurrying  times.  Dover 
has  grown  and  everything  has  grown  al- 
most beyond  comprehension.  This 
country  is  the  greatest  and  best  on  the 
globe.  We  have  liberties  and  privileges 
such  as  nobody  on  the  earth  ever  en- 
joyed or  saw  before.  A  happy  nation, 
state  and  city,  all  are  ours.  A  happy  peo- 
ple indeed.  The  sun  never  shone  on  the 
like  before,  and  God  help  us  all  to  pre- 


of  experience  and 
business  capacity  of  the  projectors.  But 
the  senior  Foster  in  this  case  had  seen  a 
good  many  years  of  editorial  experience, 
while  the  juniors  were  practical  printers 
and  trained  in  the  business  management 
of  a  daily  newspaper.  In  these  weekly 
and  daily  enterprises  the  proprietors 
started  out  full  of  pluck  and  energy,  de- 
termined, as  they  said,  to  make  things 
lively,  and  treat  everybody  and  all  sub- 
jects fairly,  squarely,  and  honestly,  giving 
all  sides  in  all  cases  a  chance  to  be  heard, 
and  granting  all  shades  of  honest  opinion 
a  medium  of  expression  before  the  public. 


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These  journal's  are  boldly  independent, 
running  with  no  mere  machine  as  such,  the 
organs  of  no  ring,  wearing  nobody's  col- 
lar, and  while  ready  to  listen  to  all  good 
advice,  will  submit  to  no  dictation  in  re- 
gard to  their  conduct  or  management 
Irom  any  source  whatever.  They  have  a 
large  and  increasing  circulation,  their  ad- 
vertising support  is  liberal  and  generous, 
and  alike  profitable  to  publishers  and  pa- 
trons. The  Senior  Foster,  assisted  by 
such  local  and  other  reporters  as  may  be 
necessary,  devotes  his  whole  time  and  at- 
tention to  the  editorial  conduct  of  the 
papers,  while  the  two  sons  have  entire 


They  have  an  extensive  reading  and  in- 
fluence in  the  community.  Starting  with 
very  meagre  means,  the  concern  has 
grown  to  yield  a  handsome  income,  and 
is  a  very  valuable  property  as  well  as  an 
important  journalistic  enterprise  of  the 
city  and  state." 

Such  words  of  praise  and  commenda- 
tion coming  wholly  unsolicited  from  a 
man  such  as  the  Revd.  Dr.  Quint,  whose 
reputation  as  a  literateur  was  far  reaching, 
is  an  eloquent  tribute  to  the  merits  of  the 
paper  not  only  as  a  means  of  disseminat- 
ing news  but  also  of  inculcating  those 
principles  of  equity  and  justice  upon  which 


RESIDENCE  OF  CHARLES  G.  FOSTER,  WEST  CONCORD  STREET. 


charge  of  the  printing  and  business  de- 
partments, employing  the  competent  sub- 
ordinates necessary  to  meet  all  require- 
ments. 

Connected  with  these  newspapers  is  a 
large  and  well-appointed  job  printing 
office,  with  good  workmen  constantly  em- 
ployed. The  whole  establishment  is  pro- 
vided with  the  best  modern  machinery, 
driven  by  electric  power,  and  its  several 
departments  are  continuously  engaged  in 
thrifty  and  profitable  business.  The  suc- 
cess of  these  newspapers  proves  that  they 
are  well  conducted  and  enterprising. 


the  well-being  of  the  community  at  large 
rest. 

The  high  standard  upon  which  the 
foundation  of  Foster's  Daily  Democrat 
was  built  has  been  rigidly  adhered  to  and 
will  be  always  maintained.  It  has  from 
its  inception  aimed  to  be  a  journal  of  the 
highest  grade,  giving  the  news  of  the 
world,  but  sedulously  avoiding  the  sensa- 
tional and  salacious  now  such  a  common 
feature  of  papers  less  careful  of  their  ut- 
terances. A  brilliant  and  prosperous  past 
and  present  predicts  a  splendid  future  for 
the  paper. 


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RESIDENCE  OF  JOSHUA  L.  FOSTER,  HANSON  STREET. 


RESIDENCE  OF  GEORGE  J.  FOSTER,  HOUGH  AND  MOUNT  VERNON  STREETS. 


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The  Cocheco  Manufacturing  Co. 

There  is  no  single  interest  in  the  city 
of  Dover  that  will  at  once  so  completely 
represent  the  solid  character  of  the  city's 
commercial  growth  and  indicate  the  qual- 
ity of  its  citizenship  than  what  is  to  be 
found  under  the  roofs  of  the  Cocheco 
Manufacturing  Company. 

In  1810,  two  years  before  the  establish- 
ment of  the  cotton  industry  in  Dover,  the 
population  numbered  but  2,228.  The 
embargo  and  the  war  of  1812  interfering 


nearly  doubled,  the  census  of  1830  show- 
ing it  to  be  5,449  ;  that  of  1840,  6,458  ; 
of  1850,  8,168  ;  and  of  1860,  8,502.  The 
increase  has  been  steadily  maintained  ow- 
ing largely  to  the  steady  and  remunerative 
employment  to  be  found  in  the  factories. 
The  Dover  Cotton  Factory  was  incor- 
porated December  15,  1812,  with  a  capi- 
tal of  $50,000,  which  built  in  1815  the 
No.  i  factory  at  Upper  Factory  Village ; 
it  was  a  wooden  structure  and  has  long 
since  disappeared.  The  company  had  its 
capital  enlarged  June  2 1 , 1 82 1  to  $500,000, 


COCHECO  MFG.  CO. '8  DAM. 


with  mercantile  pursuits,  the  business  men 
of  the  town  embarked  in  other  industries. 
In  that  year  the  Dover  Cotton  Factory 
was  incorporated,  and  as  the  lower  falls 
were  supposed  to  be  fully  occupied  by 
other  mills,  the  first  factory  was  built  two 
miles  up  the  river  and  was  long  known  as 
the  upper  factory. 

The  rapid  advancement  of  the  town  in 
wealth  and  population  dates  from  the  es- 
tablishment of  this  great  enterprise.  In 
1820  the  population  was  2,870.  Within 
the  next  ten  years  these  numbers  had 


about  the  time  when  it  bought  up  the  ti- 
tles of  the  Lower  Falls.  The  capital  was 
enlarged  June  17,  1823  to  $1,000,000 
and  the  name  changed  to  the  Dover  Man- 
ufacturing Company,  but  it  was  not  suc- 
cessful and  a  new  company,  the  present 
Cocheco  Manufacturing  Company,  was 
incorporated  June  27,  1827,  with  a  capi- 
tal of  $1,000,000,  which  purchased  of  the 
old  company  all  their  works  and  property. 
No.  2  mill  was  built  in  1822  but  this 
building  ceased  to  be  called  No.  2  when 
the  new  No.  2  (first  section),  on  the 


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north  side  of  the  river,  was  opened  for 
work  in  1881.  The  old  No.  3  was  occu- 
pied in  1823  and  was  superseded  by  the 
new  No.  2  (second  section),  which  began 
work  in  1882.  No.  4  was  opened  in  1825, 
and  No.  5  in  its  present  form,  which  re- 
placed the  old  printery  in  1850.  On 
March  28,  1877  it  was  voted  to  build  No. 
i  mill  and  increase  the  capital  stock  to 
$1,500,000.  The  new  No.  i,  standing 
on  the  south  side  of  Washington  street, 
was  finished  in  1878. 


F.  Curtis,  who  remained  until  1834,  when 
Moses  Paul  became  agent.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded August  i,  1860,  by  Zimri  S.  Wal- 
lingford,  who  had  been  superintendent 
from  1849,  and  over  the  mechanical  de- 
partment for  five  years  previous.  Mr. 
Wallingford  was  succeeded  by  John  Hol- 
land, the  present  agent,  Charles  H.  Fish, 
being  appointed  September  i,  1895. 

The  first  printing  of  calico  in  these 
works  was  executed  under  the  superinten- 
dence of  Dr.  A.  L.  Porter,  who  was  suc- 


COCHECO  MFG.  CO.,  REAR  VIEW  OF  NO8.  2,  3  AND  4  MILLS. 


The  manufacture  of  cloth  began  under 
the  care  of  John  Williams,  the  first  agent. 
He  was  the  founder  of  this  industry  here, 
and  thus  of  Dover's  prosperity.  It  was 
his  indefatigable  activity  which  turned 
capital  to  these  falls.  Moses  Paul  was 
clerk  when  the  works  came  to  the  lower 
falls ;  John  Chase,  its  first  general  mechan- 
ical superintendent ;  Andrew  Steele,  its 
first  master  mechanic ;  Samuel  Dunster, 
the  builder  of  the  first  practical  machinery 
of  the  calico  printery. 

John  Williams  was  succeeded  by  James 


ceeded,  before  1830,  by  John  Duxbury,  a 
thoroughly  experienced  English  printer. 
His  successors  have  been  George  Mathew- 
son,  John  Bracewell,  Washington  Ander- 
ton,  James  Crossley,  and  the  present  su- 
perintendent, Howard  Gray.  The  original 
printery  was  in  the  present  No.  5  mill  and 
other  buildings  near,  but  now  removed. 

It  is  not  possible,  in  our  limited  space, 
to  trace  in  detail  the  growth  of  this  indus- 
try from  its  small  beginning  to  its  present 
stupendous  proportions,  nor  is  that  nec- 
essary. Men  of  today  are  moved  most  by 


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contact  with,  and  contemplation  of,  pres- 
ent progressiveness,  rather  than  influenced 
— save  in  sentiment — by  what  has  been. 

The  cotton  manufacturing  industry  of 
Dover  was  really  a  small  affair  prior  to 
1827.  Up  to  that  time  it  met  with  but 
half-hearted  treatment  at  the  hands  of 
men  whose  foresight  did  not  at  once  real- 
ize the  possibilities  of  the  future  for  this 
business.  The  first  masterly  grasp  of  the 
situation  which  took  hold  in  real  earnest 
to  evolve  fame  for  our  city  and  wealth  and 
employment  for  its  citizens  was  given  the 


one  which  in  the  day  of  their  active  privi- 
lege labored  with  that  degree  of  intelli- 
gence which  lifted  not  alone  themselves, 
but  scores  of  others  to  place  and  fame  and 
comfortable  circumstances  in  life,  and  pro- 
vided employment  and  homes  for  thous- 
ands more. 

An  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  this  con- 
cern can  be  gleaned  from  the  fact  that 
the  plant  alone  covers  an  area  of  over  25 
acres,  the  flo.ir  space,  devoted  exclusively 
to  manufacturing,  occupying  30  acres. 
The  company  at  present  operates  about 


COCHECO  MFG.  CO.  PART  OF  NO.  2  MILL  AMD  MACHINE  SHOP. 


cotton  industry  when  the  Cocheco  Manu- 
facturing Company  assumed  the  control  of 
the  mills  in  1827.  This  gave  such  an  im- 
petus to  the  business  that  it  then  became 
a  settled  fact  that  Dover's  greatness  as  a 
manufacturing  centre  was  assured.  From 
that  time  dates  a  progressive  march  of 
business  prosperity  for  this  company  which 
stands  almost,  if  not  entirely,  alone  in  the 
records  of  quickly  successful  response  to 
the  intelligently  guided  methods  of  manu- 
facturing goods.  In  years  to  come  the 
company  will  be  gratefully  remembered  as 


130,000  spindles  in  2,800  looms  and  em- 
ploys over  2, coo  hands  constantly.  It 
manufactures  in  its  mills  cloths  of  various 
kinds,  which  they  print  in  their  extensive 
print  works.  The  print  works  contain  16 
print  machines,  with  bleachery  and  finish- 
ing mills,  with  ample  accommodation  for 
its  product  of  over  65,000,000  yards  of 
finished  cloth  per  annum.  These  cloths 
are  all  the  various  printed  fabrics  now 
called  for  by  the  trade.  A  large  part  of 
the  product  during  the  past  few  seasons 
has  been  the  finest  grades  of  lawns  and 


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organdies,  which  are  rapidly  taking  the 
place  of  the  fine  imported  fabrics.  The 
water-power  of  the  Cocheco  River  furnish- 
es about  one-half  the  power  used  in  the 
works,  the  remainder  being  obtained  from 
steam,  in  the  making  of  which  about 
20,000  tons  of  coal  are  used  yearly  under 
the  45  boilers.  In  the  construction  of 
the  mills  every  care  and  attention  has 
been  given  to  light  and  ventilation,  and 
every  convenience  has  been  provided  for 


of  prosperity  and  usefulness  even  greater 
than  those  of  its  proud  record  of  the  past. 
The  officers  of  the  company  are  as  fol- 
lows :  President,  T.  Jefferson  Coolidge, 
Boston  ;  Treasurer,  Arthur  B.  Silsbee,  Bos- 
ton ;  Selling  agents,  Lawrence  &  Company, 
Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia  &  Chica- 
go ;  Resident  Agent,  Charles  H.  Fish ;  Su- 
perintendentof  cotton millsjohn  Browne  ; 
Superintendent  of  print  works,  Howard 
Gray. 


COCHECO  MFG.  CO.  PORTION  OF  UPPER  YARDS. 


the  well-being  of  the  employees  that  mod- 
ern scientific  architecture  and  sanitation 
has  made  possible. 

The  goods  manufactured  by  the  com- 
pany are  everywhere  recognized  as  supe- 
rior in  all  respects  and  are  widely  esteemed 
by  the  trade  and  consumers,  the  different 
qualities  being  standard  in  all  sections  of 
the  country.  That  this  important  indus- 
trial enterprise  has  reached  the  zenith  of 
its  career  no  one  conversant  with  its  ad- 
vanced methods  will  admit,  and  its  con- 
stantly increasing  reputation  for  superior- 
ity of  products  gives  promise  for  a  future 


Sawyer  Woolen  Mills. 

The  Sawyer  Woolen  Mills  have  been 
indissolubly  associated  with  the  commer- 
cial prosperity  of  Dover  since  1824  when 
Alfred  I.  Sawyer  came  from  Marlboiough, 
Mass.,  and  established  the  business  from 
which  the  present  large  concern  has  sprung. 
At  that  time  the  Great  Falls  Manufactur- 
ing Company  owned  all  of  the  water-pow- 
ers in  the  Bellamy  Bank  River  and  had 
also  secured  land  covering  the  outlet  of 
Chesley's  Pond,  Barrington,  upon  which 
now  stands  the  reservoir  dam.  In  1845 


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Mr.  Sawyer  bought  of  the  Great  Falls 
Manufacturing  Company  all  their  rights  in 
the  property  and  continued  the  business 
without  interruption  until  his  death  in 
1849.  The  business  then  passed  to  his 
brother,  Zenas  Sawyer,  1849-50  ;  Z.  and 
J.  Sawyer,  1850-52  ;  F.  A.  and  J.  Sawyer 
(Francis  A.  Sawyer  of  Boston,  and  Jona- 
than Sawyer  of  Dover),  1852-1873,  when 
Charles  H.  Sawyer  was  admitted,  and  the 
concern  incorporated  as  the  Sawyer  Woolen 
Mills,  with  a  capital  of  §600,000.  Flan- 
nels were  exclusively  made  until  1862, 


falls  of  which  is  controlled  and  utilized  by 
the  company,  as  is  also  the  reservoir  at 
Harrington,  which  was  built  in  1863-64 
and  enlarged  in  1881,  with  a  capacity  of 
about  450  acres.  Tide  water  reaches  to 
the  lower  mill  and  is  navigable  for  coal 
barges  and  sloops  of  moderate  capacity. 
The  Portsmouth  and  Dover  branch  of  the 
Boston  &  Maine  R.  R.  has  a  station  at  the 
mills,  the  freight  of  which  can  be  dis- 
charged directly  into  the  warehouses. 

The  equipment  of  the  mills  is  modern 
and  first-class  throughout  and  it  is  what  is 


SPINNING  ROOM  SAWYER  WOOLEN   MILLS. 


when  the  machinery  was  gradually  changed 
until  1866,  since  which  attention  has  been 
entirely  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of 
fine  fancy  cassimeres,  cloths  and  suitings 
in  the  production  of  which  the  mills  have 
earned  a  reputation  for  quality  and  dura- 
bility of  goods  which  is  unsurpassed  by 
any  similar  concern.  In  1891  machinery 
for  the  manufacture  of  worsted  yarn  was 
added. 

The  mills  are  located  on  the  Bellamy 
River,  the  water-power  of  the  three  lower 


called  a  thirty-nine  set  mill.  These  thirty- 
nine  sets  of  machinery  constitute  an  im- 
mense plant.  The  output  of  the  mills  is 
celebrated  for  uniformity  of  texture  and 
elegance  of  finish,  commanding  the  high- 
est price  in  the  tailoring  and  clothing  trade 
markets  throughout  the  country.  The 
officers  of  the  company  are  thoroughly 
conversant  with  every  detail  of  the  woolen 
business,  and  are  energetic  and  wide- 
awake in  advancing  the  interests  of  the 
company. 


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UPPER  MILL  AND  OFFICES. 


PORTION  OF  THE  UPPER  MILL. 


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This  enterprise  has  made  of  Sawyers — 
named  for  the  mills — a  neat  and  prosper- 
ous village,  the  prosperity  of  the  company 
also  meaning  the  prosperity  of  the  com- 
munity. On  an  average  600  hands  are 
employed  consisting  of  an  unusually  high 
class  of  operatives. 

An  average  of  S 2 0,000  a  month  is  paid 
out  in  wages  to  its  employees.  This  means 
many  comfortable  homes  and  happy  fam- 
ilies. Adjoining  the  mills  and  tastefully 
laid  out  on  graded  streets  the  company 
has  erected  fifty  substantially  built  and 
comfortable  cottages  for  the  families  of 
their  employees.  These  tenements  have 
the  best  sanitary  arrangements  and  are 
kept  in  excellent  repair.  The  company 
does  all  in  its  power  to  make  its  employees' 
lives  comfortable  and  happy  and  have  been 


tion  of  the  company  and  its  business  add- 
ed to  and  conducted  by  this  Company. 

The  capacity  of  these  two  plants  prov- 
ing insufficient  for  the  demands  of  the  in- 
creasing business,  a  third  and  larger  one 
was  erected  at  Dover,  to  which  place  the 
Somersworth  shop  was  transferred,  there- 
by giving  the  company  two  splendidly 
equipped  plants,  within  a  radius  of  a  few 
miles  and  simplifying  the  management  of 
the  business  to  a  minimum. 

To  the  Dover  plant  has  been  added  the 
extensive  business  of  the  John  A.  White 
Co.  of  Concord,  manufacturers  of  all  kinds 
of  woodworking  machinery,  which  has  at- 
tained an  enviable  reputation  in  all  parts 
of  the  world.  This  company  is  the  most 
extensive  of  its  kind  in  the  world  and 
through  its  agencies  the  machines  are 


SOMERSWORTH   MACHINE  COMPANY'S  DOVER  PLANT. 


the  prime  factor  in  building  up  the  grow- 
ing and    healthy  village  which  bears    its 


The  Somersworth  Machine  Company. 

This  Company  was  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  New  Hampshire  in  1848,  as 
the  Somersworth  Machine  Company,  and 
located  at  Great  Falls,  now  the  City  of 
Somersworth. 

From  a  limited  business  in  general 
jobbing  work  it  soon  acquired,  under  able 
and  progressive  management,  more  than 
a  local  reputation  and  was  able  to  enlarge 
and  broaden  all  branches  of  its  industry. 

The  purchase  of  the  Salmon  Falls  Stove 
Works  was  made  soon  after  the  founda- 


shipped  to  England,  France,  Germany, 
India,  Japan,  South  America,  Mexico  and 
Canada.  The  Japanese  Imperial  govern- 
ment has  purchased  several  machines  and 
they  are  also  used  extensively  by  the  vari- 
ous Japanese  railroad  companies.  The 
Wm.  White  Textile  Machine  Co.  of  Nashua 
has  also  been  added.  The  product  of 
this  company  is  famous  all  over  the  coun- 
try for  its  excellent  wool  washing  machin- 
ery,— dusters,  drying  machines,  steaming 
and  crabbing  machines,  and  other  special 
textile  machines.  These  machines  are 
used  in  every  large  and  well  equipped 
woolen  mill  in  the  country  and  are  also 
extensively  used  on  the  continent  of 
Europe,  India  and  Japan  to  which  places 
the  shipments  are  increasing.  The  de- 


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mand  for  the  machines  is  phenomenal 
and  keeps  the  works  busy  all  the  time  fill- 
ing the  orders. 

Besides  the  manufacture  of  ranges, 
heating  stoves,  furnaces,  sinks,  hollow 
ware,  etc.,  at  Salmon  Falls,  and  wood- 
working machinery  and  textile  machinery 
at  Dover,  thjs  company  are  makers  of 
many  different  kinds  of  special  machinery 
and  pulleys,  hangers  and  shafting,  etc. 

The  main  shops  of  the  company  are 
located  in  Dover  and  consist  of  ten  build- 
ings, foundry,  machine-shops,  storehouses, 
pattern-shops,  iron  house,  coal  sheds  and 
stables. 

The  foundry  and  workshops  are  ideal 
for  their  separate  purposes,  being  unus- 
ually well  lighted  and  ventilated.  The 
buildings  are  of  brick  and  are  very  spa- 
cious, offering  all  the  advantages  to  be  de- 


rooms  as  well  as  blacksmith  shops,  with 
steam  hammers,  etc.,  in  connection  with 
them. 

The  pattern  shops,  storehouses,  coal 
sheds,  iron  house  and  cleaning  depart- 
ment are  all  of  sufficient  capacity  for 
their  respective  needs,  and  the  entire 
plant  is  lighted  by  electricity,  generated 
by  the  company's  own  dynamos.  A  spur 
track  runs  into  the  yards  from  the  main 
tracks  of  the  Western  Division  of  the  B. 
&  M.  R.  R.  which  pass  in  the  rear  of  the 
buildings,  thus  affording  every  opportu- 
nity for  quick  and  inexpensive  freight  de- 
livery. 

The  stove  plant  wherein  are  made  the 
world  famed  Somersworth  stoves  and 
ranges  is  situated  at  Salmon  Falls,  three 
miles  from  Dover  on  the  Salmon  Falls 
River,  about  five  minutes'  walk  from  the 


SOMERSWORTH  MACHINE  COMPANY'S  SALMON   FALLS  PLANT. 


rived  from  guarantees  of  safety  and  con- 
venience for  turning  out  all  kinds  of  first- 
class  work.  The  equipment  throughout 
is  of  the  highest  order,  none  but  the  best 
tools  and  appurtenances  to  be  found  in 
the  market  being  used. 

The  foundry  is  supplied  with  two  large 
cupolas,  one  of  sixty  inches  in  diameter 
and  another  of  forty-eight  inches,  with  a 
melting  capacity  of  25,000  Ibs.  per  hour, 
core  oven,  cranes,  and  all  the  parapher- 
nalia to  be  found  in  a  well  equipped  es- 
tablishment. The  building  proper  meas- 
ures 200  x  60  feet  and  in  connection 
with  it  are  the  core  room,  foreman's  of- 
fice and  supply  room,  giving  the  foundry 
altogether  about  20,000  square  feet  of 
available  floor  space.  Each  of  the  ma- 
chine shops  contains  15,000  square  feet 
of  floor  space  and  have  tool  and  supply 


B.  &  M.  station.  There  are  nineteen 
buildings  in  all,  and  the  work  shops  are 
thoroughly  equipped  with  all  the  latest 
improvements  for  stove  manufacture.  The 
quality  of  the  productions  in  this  depart- 
ment being  so  well  known  it  is  useless  to 
elaborate  upon  them. 

Throughout  this  great  industry  the  plant 
and  appurtenances  are  of  a  high  order  and 
the  machinery  comprises  all  the  best  and 
most  modern  labor  saving  devices  in  all 
departments,  by  which  the  expenses  of 
production  are  reduced  to  a  minimum, 
thus  enabling  the  company  to  compete 
successfully  with  others  as  regards  quality 
and  also  to  offer  substantial  inducements 
to  the  trade  generally  in  regard  to  price, 
which  is  always  quoted  at  the  lowest  pos- 
sible figure.  The  products  of  the  com- 
pany have  reached  a  degree  of  perfection 


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as  regards  quality  and  finish  which  it  is 
impossible  to  imagine  can  be  surpassed, 
and  the  working  of  each  department  is 
carefully  supervised  by  thoroughly  skilled 
and  capable  men.  With  such  unsurpassed 
facilities  and  advanced  methods  it  is  not 
to  be  wondered  at  that  the  most  gratify- 
ing success  has  been  achieved,  and  that 
the  result  obtained  is  of  a  permanent  na- 
ture cannot  be  doubted. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are  :  Pres- 
ident, O.  S.  Brown  ;  Treasurer,  E.  H.  Gil- 
man  ;  Agent,  James  C.  Sawyer ;  Directors, 
O.  S.  Brown,  C.  H.  Sawyer,  E.  H.  Gil- 


Foss  and  his  son,  A.  Melvin  Foss,  who 
came  to  this  city  from  Strafford  where 
they  had  been  engaged  in  the  grocery  and 
milling  business.  From  its  inception  the 
enterprise  achieved  a  notable  and  well 
deserved  success,  securing  a  firm  hold  on 
the  favor  and  patronage  of  the  public 
which  has  been  greatly  strengthened  by 
the  lapse  of  time. 

The  premises  occupied  consist  of  a  spa- 
cious three  story  mill  100  x  75  in  dimen- 
sions fitted  up  with  all  the  latest  improved 
woodworking  tools,  machinery  and  appli- 
ances operated  by  steam  power,  while 


D.  FOSS  AND  SON'S  MILL. 


man,  J.  A.  White,  and  J.  C.  Sawyer.  These 
men  are  thoroughly  experienced  business 
men  of  undoubted  standing,  progressive, 
enterprising  and  possessing  all  the  attri- 
butes so  eminently  necessary  in  the  up- 
building of  this  splendid  industry.  They 
are  men  of  honor  and  principle  and  in 
financial,  commercial  and  social  circles 
their  names  are  honored  and  esteemed. 


D.  Foss  and  Son. 

This  business  was  established  in  Dover 
in  1874  by  the  present  partners,   Dennis 


connected  with  their  mill  is  an  extensive 
box  factory,  one  of  the  most  complete 
concerns  of  the  kind  in  New  England.  A 
specialty  is  made  in  this  department  of 
large  packing  boxes  for  the  Cocheco 
Manufacturing  Company,  the  various  shoe 
shops  and  the  trade  generally,  and  a  large 
and  constantly  increasing  business  is  done. 
All  orders  are  turned  out  promptly  and  in 
the  best  possible  manner  while  their  esti- 
mates in  all  departments  are  as  low  as  is 
consistent  with  superior  materials  and 
workmanship.  The  firm  is  a  valued 
feature  of  the  industrial  facilities  of  the 


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59 


city  and  has  a  well  earned  reputation  for 
the  ability,  energy  and  honorable  charac- 
ter of  its  management.  Mr.  Dennis  Foss, 
the  senior  partner,  was  born  in  Strafford 
seventy-nine  years  ago  and  since  coming 
to  Dover  has  made  and  retained  the 
friendship  of  our  most  respected  citizens. 
Mr.  A.  Melvin  Foss,  who  has  the  active 
charge  of  the  business,  was  born  in  Straf- 
ford in  1847  and  received  his  education 
at  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town.  He  was  for  two  years  employed 
in  the  grocery  store  of  J.  W.  Jewell  at 
Strafford  which  he  left  to  enter  his  father's 
store  where  he  remained  for  seven  years, 
co  m  i  n  g 
to  this 
city  with 
his  father 
to  found 
the  pres- 
ent busi- 
ness in 
1874.  At 
that  time 
they  en- 
gaged in 
the  man- 
ufactu  r  e 

of  boxes  and  did  a  gen-  ffl  • 
eral  grain  business  to  ^T 
which  was  added,  ten  SB 
years  ago,  the  manu-  li_>.  ~~ 
fictureof  doors,  sashes  I 
and  blinds.  Mr.  Foss  I 
served  several  years  as  j 
school  committee  and 
was  elected  Mayor  of 
the  city  in  1893  by  a 
large  majority,  being  re-elected  two  suc- 
ceeding years  by  largely  increasing  major- 
ities. There  is  no  man  in  the  city  more 
intimately  acquainted  with  its  needs  and 
resources,  and  his  experience  in  pub- 
lic affairs  has  equipped  him  with  an  ex- 
ecutive ability  sufficient  to  master  every 
exigency  that  may  arise.  He  is  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Dover  Improvement  Associa- 
tion and  of  the  Masonic  Building  Associ- 
ation, Past  Master,  Strafford  Lodge  F.  and 
A.  M.,  Past  High  Priest  Belknap  Chapter 
R.  A.  M.,  Past  Deputy  Master  of  Orphan 
Council,  Eminent  Commander  St.  Paul 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  Ex- 


alted Ruler  Dover  Lodge  of  Elks.  Mr. 
Foss  is  a  man  of  progressive  ideas,  thor- 
oughly reliable  in  all  his  dealings  and  the 
success  the  firm  has  achieved  is  of  a  sub- 
stantial and  lasting  character. 


United  Gas  and  Electric  Company* 

In  1887  Mr.  H.  W.  Burgett  founded 
the  Dover  Electric  Company  on  First 
Street  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  the  Fan 
Cookey  Light  Company,  a  small  plant  in 
Rochester  was  also  purchased.  This  was 
at  once  changed  over  and  remodeled 
and  the  city  of  Somersworth  was  poled 
and  wired.  In  1888  work 
was  commenced  on  the  New 
Dam  Station  on  the  Salmon 
Falls  river  about  a  mile  be- 
low Somersworth  and  the 
Consolidated  Light  and 
Power  Company,  which  su- 
perseded the  other  compan- 
ies was  organized.  It  was 
completed  in  twelve  months 
and  at  once  poled  and  wired. 
The  same  year  the  Roches- 
t  e  r  and 
Somers- 
worth sta- 
t  i  o  n  s 
were  amal- 
gam a  t  e  d 
with  the 
New  Dam 
Station 
making 
one  power 
house  for 

the  entire  system.  The  company  was 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  lighting  and  fur- 
nishing power  to  the  contiguous  cities  and 
towns,  namely,  Dover,  Somersworth,  Roch- 
ester, Salmon  Falls,  Berwick,  North  and 
South  Berwick  and  Lebanon,  all  within  a 
radius  of  ten  miles.  In  1890-91  the  com- 
pany purchased  the  old  horse  railway  which 
ran  from  Sawyer's  mills  to  Garrison  hill 
and  in  September,  1892  converted  it  into 
a  standard  guage  road  and  equipped  it 
with  electricity,  extending  it  to  Berwick 
Bridge  in  Somersworth,  a  distance  of  about 
seven  miles.  In  1891  the  company  leased 
the  Dover  Gas  Light  Company  for  a  term 


UNITED  GAS  AND   ELECTRIC  COMPANY'S    PLANTS. 


6o 


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of  twenty  years  and  furnished  electricity 
and  gas  light  to  its  patrons.  Owing  to 
financial  difficulties  the  company  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  Jan'y  27, 
1894,  Wm.  F.  Brewster  being  appointed 
by  the  court.  He  was  succeeded  two 
months  later  by  H.  C.  Patterson  who  acted 
as  receiver  for  one  year.  The  company 
was  obliged  to  relinquish  the  street  railway 
in  the  spring  of  1895  but  continued  to 
supply  it  with  power.  Hon.  H.  L.  Shep- 
herd of  Rockport,  Me.,  was  appointed  re- 
ceiver, April  i,  1895  and  began  the  task 
of  straightening  out  the  affairs  of  the  corn- 


companies  in  Maine  and  New  Hampshire  ; 
John  Kivel,  Dover,  attorney;  C.  A. 
Davis,  Boston,  Mass.,  Eastern  Manager 
General  Electric  Co.;  Hon.  Fred  E. 
Richards,  Portland,  Me.,  President  Union 
Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.,  President  Portland 
National  Bank,  President  Union  Safe  De- 
posit and  Trust  Co. ;  Hon.  H.  L.  Shep- 
herd, Rockport,  Me.,  Vice  President  & 
General  Manager  S.  E.  &  H.  L.  Shep- 
herd Lime  Company.  Subsequently  Hon. 
Albert  Wallace  of  Rochester  was  elected 
president  of  the  company,  Hon.  H.  L. 
Shepherd,  of  Rockport,  Me.,  treasurer 


THE  A.  CONVERSE  PLACE  LUMBER  CO.'S  BROADWAY   MILL. 


pany,  his  first  step  being  to  take  it  out  of 
the  hands  of  a  receiver,  which  was  accom- 
plished March  6,  1897.  The  present  in- 
corporated company  was  then  formed  un- 
der the  laws  of  New  Hampshire  and 
Maine  and  named  the  United  Gas  and 
Electric  Company.  The  following  were 
elected  directors :  Hon.  Albert  Wallace, 
Geo.  E.  Wallace,  Rochester,  N.  H.,  firm 
of  E.  G.  &  E.  Wallace;  Hon.  Geo.  E. 
Macomber,  Augusta,  Me.,  President  of 
Rockland,  Thomaston  &  Camden  Street 
Railway,  and  prominently  identified  with 
numerous  Electric  Light  and  Railway 


and  general  manager  and  A.  D.  Rich- 
mond, member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
of  the  city  of  Dover,  Gen.  Supt. 
The  success  of  the  company  under  the 
new  management  has  been  most  pro- 
nounced. Strenuous  and  well  directed 
efforts  have  been  made  to  secure  new 
contracts  for  lighting  and  the  supplying 
of  power  with  pleasing  success.  Five 
hundred  arc  and  3,000  incandescent 
lights  are  now  furnished  in  Dover  and 
surrounding  towns  and  the  company's 
outlook  for  a  future  of  prosperity  is  as- 
sured. At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  di- 


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6  i 


rectors  held  fh  Dover  in  May  last,  it 
was  voted  to  purchase  the  extensive  water 
power  plant  known  as  the  Portsmouth 
Manufacturing  Company  of  South  Ber- 
wick, to  be  utilized  in  connection  with 
the  New  Dam  Station.  This  will  con- 
siderably augment  the  resources  of  the 
company  and  make  the  plant  one  of  the 
best  equipped  in  the  state.  It  will  con- 
sist of  one  2,000  horse-power  water, 
1,000  horse-power  steam,  eleven  Thomp- 
son-Houston fifty  arc  light  dynamos,  one 
300  K.  W.  500  Volt  generator  and  three 
350  K.  W.  three  phase  3,120  Volts 
generators. 


the  former  being  equipped  with  all  the 
latest  modern  machinery  known  to  the 
trade.  A  very  heavy  stock  is  at  all  times 
carried  of  Western  and  Southern  pine, 
oak,  ash,  mahogany  and  cherry  dressed 
lumber  and  a  large  wholesale  demand  is 
supplied,  the  annual  output  being  between 
4,000,000  and  5,000,000  feet,  over  fifty 
skilled  mechanics  and  laborers  being  con- 
stantly employed.  The  company  makes 
a  specialty  of  wood  mantels  and  interior 
finish  and  among  the  contracts  they  have 
carried  out  may  be  mentioned  the  interior 
decoration  of  Elisha  R.  Brown's  resi- 
dence, the  Wentworth  Home,  the  Chil- 


A.  CONVERSE  PLACE  LUMBER  CO.  S  WHARF  AND  LUMBER  YARDS. 


The  A.  Converse  Place  Lumber    Co. 


The  A.  Converse  Place  Lumber  Com- 
pany was  incorporated  in  May  last, 
succeeding  the  firm  of  Converse  & 
Hammond  which  was  established  by 
Joshua  Converse  in  1870.  The  company 
deals  extensively  in  wholesale  and  retail 
lumber  and  manufactures  every  descrip- 
tion of  interior  and  exterior  finish,  wood 
mantels  and  stair  work,  their  trade  ex- 
tending generally  throughout  New  England 
and  adjoining  states.  Their  offices  and 
yards  are  situated  on  Cocheco  street  and 
cover  an  area  of  six  acres  with  ample 
wharfage  facilities  and  all  requisite  con- 
veniences for  a  successful  and  systematic 
conduct  of  affairs.  The  mills  and  branch 
yard  occupy  three  acres  on  Broadway, 


dren's  Home,  the  Catholic  church, 
Newmarket,  the  Richardson  Dormitory, 
Hanover,  the  annex  to  the  Wentworth 
House,  Portsmouth  and  several  others. 
The  officers  of  the  company  are  :  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager,  A.  Converse 
Place ;  Secretary,  Edward  M.  Home. 
Mr.  Place  was  born  in  Salmon  Falls  and 
graduated  from  the  South  Berwick  Acad- 
emy in  1886,  when  he  entered  the  employ- 
ment of  the  firm  of  Converse  &  Hammond 
in  which  he  became  a  partner  in  1889.  He 
is  thoroughly  conversant  with  every  branch 
of  the  extensive  business  he  conducts,  and 
under  his  experienced  and  conservative 
management  a  future  of  prosperity  is 
assured  to  the  company.  He  is  a  Thirty- 
second  Degree  Mason,  a  director  of  the 
Co-operative  Bank,  a  member  of  the 


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Security  Company  and  represents  Ward  3 
in  the  Common  Council.  In  business 
and  social  circles  he  is  highly  esteemed 
for  his  sterling  integrity.  He  is  an 
active  member  of  the  Bellamy  Club. 
Mr.  Home  is  a  native  of  Somersworth  and 
a  graduate  of  the  High  School  of  that 
city.  He  was  bookkeeper  for  the  Dover 
Clothing  Company  until  1894,  in  which 
year  he  accepted  a  similar  position  with 


Dover  Furniture  Co- 


One  of  the  best  and  most  prominent 
furniture  establishments  in  this  part  of  the 
state,  carrying  the  largest  and  most  com- 
plete stock,  is  that  of  the  Dover  Furniture 
Company.  The  premises  occupied  for 
the  business  embrace  a  substantial  four- 
story  and  basement  building  at  the  corner 
of  Third  and  Chestnut  streets,  opposite 


DOVER  FURNITURE  COMPANY'S  WAREHOUSE. 


Converse  &  Hammond.  In  addition 
to  his  secretarial  duties  Mr.  Home  repre- 
sents the  company  on  the  road  and  has 
established  an  enviable  reputation  for  his 
honorable  dealings  and  business-like  meth- 
ods. He  is  most  popular  among  a  large 
circle  of  friends  who  esteem  him  for  his 
many  excellent  qualities.  Mr.  Home  is 
Master  Mason  of  Moses  Paul  Lodge  arid 
a  member  of  the  Bellamy  Club. 


the  Boston  &  Maine  depot,  each  floor 
measuring  40x100  feet  and  of  easy  access 
by  means  of  the  elevator.  The  stock 
shown  is  as  complete  as  modern  methods 
demand.  It  comprises  all  the  latest 
novelties  and  prevailing  styles  in  artistic 
home  furnishings,  parlor,  library,  dining- 
room  and  chamber  furniture ;  carpets, 
rugs,  floor  cloths,  portieres,  draperies, 
pictures  and  everything,  in  fact,  in  high 


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grade  and  medium  house  furnishings  for 
the  mansion  or  cottage.  The  success  of 
the  house  from  its  inception  in  1892  has 
been  most  pronounced  and  their  trade  is 
very  large,  people  coming  from  the  ad- 
joining towns,  within  a  radius  of  thirty 
miles  to  purchase  their  house  furnishing 
goods  from  this  well  known  house.  From 
ten  to  twelve  courteous  assistants  are  con- 
stantly employed  and  three  teams  are 
kept  busy  delivering  orders. 

The  business  was  founded,  in  1892,  by 
the  present  partners,  J.  Everett  Ewer,  and 
J.  Eugene  Mooney,  both  of  whom  are 


Mr.  Ewer  was  born  at  Week's  Mills, 
Me.,  and  took  a  collegiate  course  at  the 
Gardner  High  School.  During  his  school 
days,  and  for  a  couple  of  years  afterwards, 
he  engaged  in  journalism  and  then  spent 
ten  years  in  the  saddlery  hardware  fur- 
nishing business  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
which  he  left  to  form  the  present  partner- 
ship. He  is  a  Thirty-Second  degree 
Mason,  Moses  Paul  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.,  a  member  of  Providence  Chapter, 
Orphan  Council,  Dover,  St.  John's  Com- 
mandery,  Providence,  and  Rhode  Island 
Consistorv,  S.  P.  R.  S. 


AN  INTERIOR  VIEW  DOVER  FURNITURE  COMPANY. 


thoroughly  conversant  with  its  every  de- 
tail and  are  capable  and  progressive  busi- 
ness men  who  have  made  a  close  study  of 
successfully  catering  to  the  public  require- 
ments. In  this  lies  the  success  they  have 
achieved. 

Among  the  recent  furnishing  contracts 
carried  out  by  this  firm  may  be  mentioned 
the  complete  furnishing  of  the  Wentworth 
Home  for  the  aged,  several  cottages  and 
hotels'  at  York  Beach,  Wells  Beach  and 
other  seashore  resorts,  the  hotels  at  Milton 
Three  Ponds,  Gonic,  Epping  and  the 
Granite  State  Park  Hotel. 


Mr.  Mooney  is  a  native  of  Whitefield, 
Me.,  where  he  was  born  in  1870.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  school  of  his  native 
town,  afterwards  taking  courses  at  the 
Pittston  Academy  and  Augusta  Business 
College.  Upon  completing  his  education 
he  engaged  in  the  furniture  business  with 
Messrs.  Preble  and  Keene,  Gardner,  Me., 
where  he  remained  three  years,  afterwards 
accepting  the  position  of  manager  for  the 
Portsmouth  Furniture  Company  which  he 
left  to  engage  in  his  present  enterprise. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Bellamy 
Club,  a  member  of  Moses  Paul  Lodge, 


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A.  F.  and  A.  M.  and  the  Dover  Lodge  of 
Elks. 

Both  partners  are  highly  esteemed  in 
business  and  social  circles,  are  young, 
ambitious  but  conservative  in  their  meth- 
ods, and  to  this  and  their  intimate 
acquaintance  with  business  methods  may 
be  ascribed  the  success  they  have 
achieved. 


Thomas  H.  Dearborn  &  Co. 

A  history  of  the  business  interests  of 
Dover  would   not   be   complete   without 


nearly  every  business  man  in  the  city  who 
prognosticated  that  such  an  extensive  es- 
tablishment could  not  be  made  a  success 
in  Dover  but  nothing  daunted  they  took 
the  step.  Five  years  later  they  added 
nearly  as  much  more  room,  and  a  well 
equipped  cloak  room  was  opened.  Two 
years  ago  they  took  the  basement  in 
which  they  opened  a  kitchen  furnishing 
department.  The  rapid  growth  of  this 
house  can  be  attributed  to  the  same 
cause  which  has  made  the  success  of  all 
large  concerns,  perseverance,  energy  and 
honest  dealings  combined  with  hard  work, 


RESIDENCE  OF  THOMAS  H.  DEARBORN,  SILVER  STREET. 


reference  to  the  dry  goods  and  depart- 
ment store  of  Thomas  H.  Dearborn  & 
Co.  which  was  established  by  the  present 
partners  Thomas  H.  Dearborn  and  Frank 
N.  French  in  1884.  From  a  small  be- 
ginning this  establishment  has  grown  to 
be  second  to  none  of  its  kind  in  this  sec- 
tion. Upon  first  coming  to  Dover  they 
purchased  the  dry  goods  business  located 
in  the  store  470  Central  Avenue.  Two 
years  later  an  opportunity  presented  it- 
self to  secure  what  is  now  a  part  of  the 
present  large  concern.  This  step  was 
taken  against  the  judgment  and  advice  of 


a  liberal   use  of  printer's  ink  and  keeping 
faith  with  the  public. 

Thos.  H.  Dearborn  was  born  in  North- 
field,  N.  H.,  in  1860.  He  received  his 
education  at  Exeter  and  New  Hampton 
and  upon  leaving  school  engaged  in  the 
dry  goods  business  in  Exeter.  Subse- 
quently he  went  to  Texas  and  was  en- 
gaged in  raising  sheep  and  horses,  finally 
coming  to  Dover  to  engage  in  his  present 
business.  He  is  a  conservative  but  en- 
terprising business  man  who  has  attained 
his  present  position  by  merit  alone.  Mr. 
Dearborn  is  a  member  of  Moses  Paul 


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THOMAS  H.  DEARBORN. 


FRANK  N.  FRENCH. 


THOMAS  H.  DEARBORN  &  CO.'S  STORE. 


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Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  the  Royal  Arcanum, 
an  Elk,  and  Redman,  and  is  a  deservedly 
popular  citizen  of  wide  acquaintance  and 
great  influence  in  the  business  life  of  the 
city,  being  president  of  the  Dover  Com- 
mercial Club.  Frank  N.  French  was 
born  in  Exeter,  in  1860  and  graduated 
from  Exeter  Academy,  subsequently  tak- 
ing a  business  course  at  the  New  Hamp- 
ton Commercial  College.  He  was  en- 
gaged in  the  dry  goods  business  in  his 
native  city  until  he  came  to  Dover  and 
formed  the  present  partnership.  Mr. 
French  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
Bellamy  Club  and  is  most  highly  thought  of 
by  the  community  at  large. 


Dover  Business  College. 

With  the  young  man  of  ambition  the 
question  above  all  others  is  how  to  get  a 
start.  In  order  to  secure  a  foothold 
somewhere  he  must  be  able  to  do  some- 


THOMAS   M.   HENDERSON, 
Principal  Dover  Business  College. 

thing  useful.  The  Dover  Business  College 
course  of  study  is  designed  to  qualify  the 
prospective  business  man  to  cope  with  the 
difficulties  he  is  sure  to  meet.  It  gives 
thorough  and  scientific  training  in  those 


things  that  the  business  proprietor  and 
manager  should  be  thoroughly  familiar 
with,  and  without  which  he  will  be  con- 
stantly handicapped  in  his  business  career. 
The  College  was  founded  on  the  principle 
that  permanent  success  in  business,  as 
elsewhere,  must  be  based  upon  adequate 
preparation.  The  Dover  Business  College 
furnishes  the  training  and  preparation 
that  fit  young  men  and  women  to  achieve 
success  which  would  otherwise  be  long 
deferred  if  not  actually  unattainable.  The 
College  has  earned  a  reputation  for  effi- 
ciency in  helping  young  people  on  the 
road  to  success.  It  puts  them  in  posses- 
sion of  a  practical  business  education  ;  it 
assists  its  graduates  to  responsible  and  lu- 
crative positions  ;  its  course  of  study  and 
training  and  the  association  with  its  capable 
teachers  and  energetic  business  students 
give  an  incentive  to  effort  and  an  impulse 
to  ambition.  The  College  was  founded 
in  October,  1896,  by  Bliss  Brothers  of 
Conneaut,  O.,  Mr.  T.  M.  Henderson  being 
appointed  principal.  In  July,  1897,  Mr. 
Henderson  acquired  the  business  which 
he  conducted  under  the  original  name  un- 
til last  January  when  the  title  became  as 
at  present.  The  class-rooms  are  located 
in  the  Odd  Fellows  block  and  consist  of 
five  spacious  rooms  excellently  equipped 
for  business  purposes,  the  main  class-room 
measuring  40x60  feet.  The  students  have 
the  advantage  of  working  in  a  well  ap- 
pointed business  office  which  also  con- 
tains a  First  and  Second  National  Bank 
thus  making  them  thoroughly  conversant 
with  every  detail  of  business  life.  The 
prescribed  courses  of  study  are  classed  as 
Commercial,  Shorthand  and  Practical 
English.  The  Commercial  Course  is  de- 
signed to  furnish  a  thorough  preparation 
for  a  successful  business  career.  It  gives 
a  complete  course  in  the  science  and  me- 
chanical work  of  bookkeeping  and  all  its 
collateral  branches,  the  Williams  and 
Rogers  System  being  adopted.  In  the 
Shorthand  classes  the  Dement-Pitman 
System  is  used,  being  the  very  latest  de- 
velopment of  the  world-famed  Pitman 
method.  This  is  a  very  strong  feature  of 
the  College  as  shown  by  the  responsible 
positions  now  being  held  by  some  of  the 
graduates  in  the  Shorthand  department. 


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The  department  of  business  practice  and 
the  Counting-room  department  are  the 
crowning  features  of  the  College — those 
which  have  contributed  to  its  reputation 
for  thoroughness  and  efficiency.  The 
pupil  here  becomes  in  all  essentials  a 
practical  business  man.  Night  sessions 
are  held  on  Mondays,  Wednesdays  and 
Fridays  at  which  the  same  course  is 
taken  as  in  the  day  classes  and  students 
are  graduated  on  completing  their 
course. 

Mr!  Henderson  was  born  in  Pickering, 
Ont.,  Canada,  in  1861,  receiving  his  early 
education  at  the  Whitly  High  School. 
He  subsequently  took  a  course  at  Picker- 
ing College  and  obtained  a  professional 
teacher's  certificate  from  the  Toronto 
Normal  School.  He  afterwards  graduated 
from  the  Central  Business  College,  Toron- 
to. His  teaching  experience  extends  over 
a  period  of  twelve  years,  in  both  Public 
Schools  and  Business  College  work.  When 
Bliss  Brothers  founded  their  School  in 
this  city  he  was  chosen  principal  and  is 
today  sole  proprietor  of  the  Dover  Busi- 
ness College.  Mr.  Henderson  is  well- 
grounded  in  and  thorough'y  familiar  with 
every  particular  of  business  as  practiced 
in  the  best  Commercial  offices,  and  the 
success  the  College  has  attained  under  his 
skilful  and  capable  management  is  as 
pleasing  as  it  is  pronounced. 


Hon.  John  Tapley  Welch. 

Hon.  John  Tapley  Welch,  who  assumed 
charge  of  the  Post  Office  May  24,  1898, 
is  widely  known  in  this  section,  has  held 
many  positions  of  trust  and  is  recognized 
as  a  man  of  abundant  executive  ability. 
The  appointment  of  Postmaster  was  se- 
cured by  Mr.  Welch  after  a  long  and 
exciting  contest. 

Mr.  Welch  was  born  in  Dover,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1856,  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Dover  and  at  Dartmouth 
College.  After  completing  his  education 
he  devoted  many  years  to  newspaper 
work.  He  served  as  city  editor  of  the 
Whiteside  Sentinel  of  Morrison,  111.,  the 
Dover  Daily  Republican  and  Dover  Daily 


Times,  and  was  for  several  years  the  Dover 
correspondent  of  the  Boston  Globe. 

He  has  had  much  experience  in  a  cler- 
ical capacity,  having  been  clerk  of  the 
Dover  police  court  in  1881-1882,  register 
of  probate  for  Strafford  county  from  1882 
to  1887,  five  years  a  member  and  first 
secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Dover  Public  Library,  and  from  February 
1890,  to  July  1894,  was  chief  time  clerk  of 
the  government  printing  office  at  Wash- 
ington. Mr.  Welch  represented  Ward  3 
in  the  legislature  of  1889,  and  served  as 
clerk  of  the  committee  on  railroads. 

He  has  always  been  an  ardent  Republi- 
can and  an  active  supporter  of  his  party. 


HON.  JOHN  T.  WELCH, 

Postmaster  of  Dover. 

He  has  been  a  delegate  to  every  Republican 
state  and  district  convention  since  1882, 
is  at  present  a  member  of  the  republican 
state  committee  and  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Dover  Ward  3  committee  for  several 
years.  He  also  served  as  supervisor  of 
elections  during  the  presidental  election 
of  1884. 

In  1896  he  was  unanimously  nominated 
for  Senator  in  the  22nd  Senatorial  district 
and  was  elected  by  the  largest  majority 
ever  given  in  the  district.  In  the  Senate 


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he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  re- 
vision of  laws  and  also  served  on  the  com- 
mittees on  education,roads,  bridges,canals, 
and  manufactures. 

Mr.  Welch  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Society,  the  Dover 
Historical  Society,  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution  and  the  following  secret 
societies  in  Dover :  Mt.  Pleasant  lodge 
and  Prescott  Encampment,  I.  O.  O.  F. ; 
Olive  Branch  Lodge,  K.  of  P. ;  Wanalan- 
set  Tribe  of 
Red  Men  ; 
Co  eur  d  e 
Lion  Castle. 
K.  G.  E.,  and 
Dover  Lodge 
184,  B.  P. 
O.  E. 

The  Late 
Levi  Gerrish 
Hill,  M.  D. 

For  half  a 
century  D  r . 
Hill  was  iden- 
tified with 
Dover;  his  in- 
terest and  ac- 
tivity ne  v  e  r 
flagging  from 
the  time  of  his 
coming  in 
1848,  to  his 
death  in 
1898. 

To  the 
most  remark- 
able degree 
he  escaped 
the  infirmities 
of  age,  con- 
tinuing h  i  s 

professional  duties  to  within  one  month 
of  his  decease.  His  tall  figure  and  stately 
courtesy  seemed  a  part  of  Dover. 

Dr.  Hill  was  a  thorough  New  Englander, 
whose  ancestors  were  conspicuous  in  the 
early  history  of  the  colony  :  Elder  Hate- 
vil  Nuiter,  Thomas  Leighton,  John  Hill 
of  New  Hampshire,  Henry  Sewall,  Stephen 
Dummer  and  Captain  William  Gerrish  of 
Massachusetts  were  his  grandfathers  in  the 
1 7th  century.  Chief  Justice  Samuel 


THE  LATE  DR.   LEVI  GERRISH   HILL 


Sewall  was  his  kinsman,  and  also  Lt.  Gov. 
William  Dummer.  He  was  the  son  of 
Andrew  Neal  and  Sally  (Leighton)  Hill 
and  was  born  in  Strafford,  N.  H.,  July 
7th,  1812. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  on  his  father's 
farm — attending  the  district  school  till  the 
age  of  fifteen,  after  which  he  attended 
Newmarket  and  Gilmantpn  Academies. 

Deciding  upon  the  medical  profession 
he  attended  three  full  courses  of  lectures 
a  t  D_a  r  t  - 
mouth  Medi- 
cal College 
and  was  grad- 
uated there- 
from in  1838. 
The  degree 
of  A.  M.  was 
conferred  up- 
on him  by 
Dartmouth 
Co  1 1  e  g  e  in 
1883. 

I  m  me  di- 
ately  after 
gradu  a  t  i  o  n 
Dr.  Hill  be- 
gan practice 
a  t  Salisbury, 
N.  H.  Two 
years  later  he 
estab  1  i  s  h  e  d 
himself  in 
Norfolk,  Va., 
where  resided 
his  only 
brother,  Capt. 
Andrew 
Le  i  gh t  o  n 
Hill.  In  Nor- 
folk he  ac- 
quired a  good 
practice  but 

his  fondness  for  New  England  impelled 
him  to  return  to  New  Hampshire. 

The  Medical  Societies  of  the  City, 
County  and  State,  had  in  Dr.  Hill  an  ac- 
tive and  progressive  member.  He  was 
president  of  the  New  Hampshire  Medical 
Society  in  1869,  and  president  of  its 
board  of  trustees  from  the  establishment 
of  that  Board.  He  was  president  of  the 
Dover  Medical  Society  in  1854  ;  president 
of  the  Strafford  District  Medical  Society 


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in  1862  ;  permanent  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  ;  vice  pres- 
ident in  1 88 1  ;  president  of  the  Examin- 
ing Board  under  the  registration  law  of 
New  Hampshire  during  the  first  ten  years 
of  its  existence,  1878  to  1888;  honorary 
member  of  the  Portsmouth  Medical  Soci- 
ety, and  of  the  Maine  Medical  Associa- 
tion. 

On  November  i3th,  1893,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Dartmouth  Alum- 
ni Association  of  S.  E.  New  Hampshire. 

Dr.  Hill  was  a  Mason — member  of 
Strafford  Lodge  since  June,  1856.  In 
November,  1849,  ne  joined  the  Weco- 
hamet  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  joined 


served  on  the  field  as  captain  of  the 
Thirty-fifth  Massachusetts  infantry ;  Ade- 
laide Shackford,  wife  of-  Rev.  James  M. 
Buckley,  LL.D.,  of  Morristown,  N.  J. ; 
and  Margaret  Leigh  ton,  deceased,  wife  of 
Seth  M.  Milliken  of  New  York  city. 


Late  Joseph  Dame  Guppey. 

Capt.  James  Guppey  was  born  in  Bev- 
erly, Mass.,  in  1732,  and  came  to  Dover 
while  young  to  be  educated  for  a  nautical 
career,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  com- 
manded a  ship.  He  sailed  from  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  and  Salem,  Mass.,  his  fam- 
ily residing  in  Portsmouth.  In  1767  he 


RESIDENCE  OF  THE  LATE  DR.  HILL,  WASHINGTON  STREET. 


the  First  Parish  church  of  Dover,  May  6, 
1877. 

Dr.  Hill  was  married  July  30,  1838,  to 
Abigail  Burnham,  daughter  of  the  late 
Samuel  Shackford,  Esq.,  a  woman  of  re- 
markable beauty  and  strength  of  charac- 
ter, whose  death  on  October  25th,  1895, 
was  deeply  mourned  by  a  wide  circle. 

Their  children  are  :  Clara  A.,  wife  of 
the  late  George  F.  French,  A.M.,  M.D., 
of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  surgeon  United 
State  volunteers  and  personal  staff  sur- 
geon of  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant ;  Abby  A.,  wife 
of  Maj.  William  N.  Meserve,  then  in  com- 
mand of  Forts  Barnard  and  Albany,  near 
Washington,  D.  C.,  having  previously 


purchased  the  Capt.  Heard  farm  in  Dover,  V-f  ^ 
and  after  repairing  the  house,  which  was/ 
built  in  1690,  removed  his  family  there.; 
When  our  independence  was  established 
he  relinquished  a  sea- faring  life  and    re- 
tired to  his  farm.     In  August  1782,  the  , 
government   sent    him    to    the    friendly 
French  fleet  on  our  coast  as  a  competent 
and  trustworthy  pilot.     He  piloted  five  of  ! 
the  fleet  to  Portsmouth    harbor   and  re- 
mained with  them  three  months  as   the 
confidential  business  advisor  of    Marquis  i 
de  Vandreuil.     He    died    in   1826,  aged  \ 
ninety-three  years,  leaving  his  farm  to  his    j 
son  John,  who  was  born  in  1768  and  died    | 
in   1855,  aSed  eighty-seven  years.     John 


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had  five  sons  ;  two  died  in  early  manhood, 
of  the  other  three  Gen.  J.  J.  Guppey  of 


February   11,1823.     He  received  a  good 
common  school  education  supplemented 


Wisconsin,  a 
grad  u  a  t  e  of 
Dart  mouth, 
died  5ril§93, 
aged  seventy- 
three  years. 
The  next  one, 
Joseph  D., 
died  in  Dover 
in  1890.  The 
youngest,  Jer- 
emy B.,  owns 
the  home- 
stead  farm, 
and  with  his 
two  si  s  t  e  r  s , 
Mrs.  Abby  G. 
Trafton  and 
Miss  Hannah 
G.  Guppey, 
occupies  the 
same  house 
built  in  1690 
that  his  grand- 
fat  h  e  r  and 
father  occu- 
pied so  many 
years. 

J  o  s  e  p  h 
Dame  Gup- 
pey was  born 
in  Dover, 


THE  OLD  GUPPEY  HOUSE  (BUILT  I690\  PORTLAND  STREET 


THE   LATE   EX-MAYOR   JOSEPH   D.  GUPPEY. 


by  a  special 
academic 
course  in 
mathematics . 
He  inherited 
the  family 
physique,  and 
was  a  sound, 
practical  man, 
always  ready 
to  give  a 
strong,  com- 
m  o  n-s  e  n  s  e 
opinion  upon 
any  subject  to 
which  his  at- 
tention had 
been  called. 
In  early  life 
he  succeeded 
as  a  sc  h  o  o  1 
teacher,  and 
his  fellow- 
citizens  r  e  - 
p  e  a  t  e  d  1  y 
showed  their 
confidence  in 
h  i  s  integrity 
and  ability  by 
placing  him 
m  positions 
of  public  trust 


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and  responsibility,  auditor,  moderator, 
school  committeeman,  county,  commis- 
sioner, member  of  the  Constitutional  con- 
vention and  mayor  in  1879-1880.  He 
retired  from  each  office  with  honor  and 
credit.  It  may  be  briefly  added  that  ex- 
Mayor  Guppey  was  a  good  type  of  that 
useful  class  of  citizens  who  are  always  safe 
advisors  in  critical  times  or  in  an  emer- 
gency of  any  kind. 

Hon.  Hose  a 
Ballou 
Perkins. 

Hon.  Ho- 
sea  B  a  1 1  o  u 
Perkins  was 
born  in  Dover 
August  4, 
1819,  and  is 
the  son  of 
Robert  Per- 
kins and  Re- 
lief Earle.  He 
has  the  dis- 
tinc  t  i  o  n  of 
belonging  to 
one  of  the  old- 
est and  most 
honored  fam- 
ilies of  New 
Hamps  hire. 
His  ancestors 
were  men  who 
made  history 
and  there  are 
in  Dover  to- 
day the  old 
mansions 
built  by  these 
men,  which 
are  now  some 

of  our  time-honored  reminders  of  days 
and  people  that  have  passed  from  all  but 
memory. 

Mr.  Perkins  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  New  Hampshire  and 
throughout  his  school  days  showed  the 
greatest  aptitude  for  acquiring  knowledge 
and  improving  his  opportunities. 

Leaving  school  at  the  early  age  of 
fourteen,  he  divided  the  remaining  years 
of  his  boyhood  between  farm  and  clerk 


HON.  HOSEA  BALLOU    PERKINS. 


life,  going  to  New  York  City  when  seven- 
teen years  old  with  no  capital  save  his  na- 
tive energy  and  tact,  and  without  an  ac- 
quaintance in  the  metropolis  except  a 
poor  colored  man. 

He  began  his  business  life  in  New  York 
as  a  clerk  in  the  well-known  carpet  establish- 
ment of  Shaw  &  Carter.  At  the  end  of  his 
second  year  he  refused  a  liberal  salary 
from  this  company  and  embarked  in  busi- 
ness for  him- 
self, taking  for 
a  partner  his 
younger 
brother, 
James  P.  Per- 
kins. For 
twen  ty-fi  v  e 
years  the  ca- 
reer of  this 
firm  of  carpet 
me  r  c  h  a  n  t  s 
was  one  con- 
tinued success 
in  spite  of  the 
financial  crisis 
through  which 
our  country 
passed  during 
that  time. 

During  the 
last  year  of 
Fernando 
Wood's  may- 
oralty of  New 
York  the 
nomin  a  t  i  o  n 
for  the  assem- 
bly i  n  t  h  e 
Twelfth  Ward 
was  tendered 
Mr.  Perkins 
and  declined. 

Later,  under  the  leadership  of  John  Kelly, 
he  was  nominated  for  State  Senator,  but 
refused  the  nomination,  much  to  the  re- 
gret of  his  party. 

Mr.  Perkins  has  been  a  life  long  Dem- 
ocrat, efficient  and  active  on  the  stump, 
during  many  campaigns.  He  never  sought 
any  political  office,  but  was  content  to 
serve  the  educational  interests  of  the  city 
for  more  than  thirty  years  as  Commissioner 
and  Inspector  of  Public  Schools. 


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In  1871  Mr.  Perkins  received  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Bpw- 
doin  and  in  1875  from  Dartmouth  College. 
It  was  in  the  fall  of  '75  that  he  delivered 
to  the  Dartmouth  students  his  popular 
lecture  on  Robert  Burns,  the  Scottish 
poet,  which  was  repeated  two  years  later 
at  the  request  of  the  faculty.  Mr.  Perkins 
has  delivered  many  addresses  before  agri- 
cultural societies,  colleges,  political  and 
other  gatherings,  also  before  lyceums  in 
different  parts  of  the  country.  As  an 
after-dinner  speaker  he  has  always  been  in 
great  demand.  During  the  Civil  War  he 
represented  his  native  state  in  the  New 
England  Relief  Association,  pleading  elo- 
quently the  cause  of  the  Union. 

When  the  Second  New  Hampshire  reg- 
iment arrived  in  New  York  under  the 
command  of  Colonel  Marston,  Mr.  Per- 
kins was  selected  by  the  sons  of  New 
Hampshire,  resident  in  this  city,  to  make 
the  address  of  welcome,  which  he  did  on 
the  Battery  in  the  presence  often  thousand 
people,  and  the  address  was  published  in 
several  of  the  New  England  papers. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  one  of 
Mr.  Perkins'  addresses  before  the  Board 
of  Education  of  New  York  City  :  "  I  had 
hardly  been  in  this  Board  one  month  when 
a  gentleman  well  known  in  this  commun- 
ity, holding  a  high  social  position,  but  not 
especially  noted  for  his  liberality,  said  to 
me  :  '  Commissioner,  I  think  public  ed- 
ucation is  a  failure.'  I  answered  him  that  if 
he  entertained  such  an  idea  it  was  a  delu- 
sive dream  that  enwrapped  his  senses,  an 
idle  fancy  sporting  with  his  fears.  And 
let  me  say  here,  to-night,  in  the  presence 
of  this  Board  and  of  the  intelligent  mem- 
bers of  the  press  and  of  all,  that  the  com- 
mon school  here  in  this  great  city,  amid 
the  bleak  hills  of  New  England,  or  on  the 
broad  prairies  of  the  far  distant  west,  is 
no  more  a  failure  than  '  popular  liberty, 
constitutional  law,  or  the  Christian  relig- 
ion.' The  past  is  full  of  its  great  achieve- 
ments, the  future  will  acknowledge  its 
sovereign  power. 

The  common  school  a  failure  !  Why, 
sir,  you  might  as  well  attempt  to  dam  up 
the  waters  of  Niagara  with  cobwebs  as  to 
try  to  fetter  the  feet  of  the  noble  men  and 
women  who  are  engaged  in  the  grand 


work  of  popular  instruction  in  this  great, 
free  and  prosperous  republic,  whose  very 
foundations  rest  upon  the  intelligence  and 
virtue  of  the  people. 

From  our  public  schools  and  our  col- 
leges are  to  go  out  into  the  world  the  men 
and  the  women  who  are  to  make  states 
and  form  our  national  strength,  who  are 
to  still  further  illustrate  the  grand  idea 
that  man  is  capable  of  self-government, 
endowed  by  his  Maker  with  natural  rights 
older  than  the  sceptre  of  the  king,  and 
that  can  be  taken  from  him  only  by  that 
Omnipotent  Power  '  to  whom  a  thousand 
years  are  but  as  yesterday  when  it  is  past,' 
and  who  controls  the  destinies  of  men  and 
nations. 

Look  back,  oh  illiberal  and  misguided 
opponent  of  public  education,  through 
the  mist  and  haze  of  the  past,  and  tell 
me  if  you  can  what  paintings  of  Apollos, 
what  statutes  of  Phidias,  what  poems  of 
Homer  or  Virgil  are  half  as  noble,  or  have 
contributed  half  as  much  to  the  general 
welfare  and  prosperity  of  mankind  as  the 
humble  little  temple  of  learning  em- 
bosomed amid  the  pine  forests  of  Maine, 
or  standing  upon  the  bleak  shores  of  Erie 
or  Ontario. 

Lord  Bacon  suggested  to  the  people  of 
Great  Britain  a  system  of  public  educa- 
tion, but  the  titled,  tinselled  and  courtly 
throng  of  that  period  did  not  think  it  safe, 
under  their  form  of  government,  to  edu- 
cate the  masses,  and  they  rejected  Bacon's 
plan,  and  '  like  the  base  Judean,  they 
threw  a  rich  pearl  away.'  But  to-day  has 
changed  the  picture  ! — the  people  of  Great 
Britain  are  proud  of  their  public  schools, 
and  public  education  engrosses  the  atten- 
tion of  her  best  and  brightest  intellects. 
If  people  living  under  a  monarchical  gov- 
ernment are  taking  so  much  interest  in 
the  education  of  the  masses,  why  talk  of 
public  education  being  a  failure  in  this 
glorious  land  of  ours,  where  every  man 
can  rise  in  the  majesty  of  his  own  intel- 
lect and  where  the  avenues  to  knowledge, 
distinction  and  power  are  clear  and  broad 
for  all. 

But,  Mr.  President,  if  our  great  system 
of  education  be  ever  destroyed  by  antag- 
onists of  whatever  name  (I  allude  to  no 
particular  sect  or  faction),  I,  for  one,  can- 


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not  but  think  its  light  will  linger  even 
when  its  sun  is  set,  gilding  the  loftiest 
spires  of  our  land  with  the  departing  glo- 
ries of  a  system  that  now  commands  the 
admiration  of  the  young,  the  generous  and 
the  good. 

Our  public  schools,  to-day,  are  better 
organized  and  equipped  and  are  doing 
better  work  than  at  any  previous  period 
in  their  history.  Let  us  then,  whether  in 
this  Board  or  out  of  it,  give  to  them  our 
counsel,  our  means  and  our  best  efforts. 
Let  us  plead  for  education  in  all  lands 
and  among  all  people,  and  when  educa- 
tion shall  have  become 
universal,  may  we  not 
hope  for  that  happy 
epoch  for  which  the 
good  have  so  long 
prayed,  and  the  war- 
rior's battered  panoply 
shall  be  laid  aside. 
Then  will  peace,  the 
blessed  angel  of  peace, 
be  crowned  with  tri- 
umphant garl  a  n  d  s  ; 
then,  in  the  eloquent 
language  of  another 
'  will  dim  Meroe  shout 
freedom  from  beyond 
the  fountains  of  the 
Nile,  and  lips  as  stony 
as  the  sphinx  will 
preach  the  Gospel '  of 
the  better  day." 

Mr.  Perkins  is  a 
member  of  the  Tam- 
many society,  Demo- 
cratic club,  Fordham 
club,  and  has  been 
president  of  the  Wash- 
ington Heights  Century  club  for  the  past 
ten  years. 

On  November  9,  1843,  Mr.  Perkins 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Harriet  Louise 
Hanmer  and  their  children  were  Edwin 
Earle,  who  died  in  1893,  Harriet  Ida, 
Helen  Hanmer,  James  P.,  Jr.,  who  died 
in  1851,  Lucy  Charlotte,  died  in  1853, 
Mary  Grace  and  Robert  Randolph. 

Probably  no  man  in  New  York  is  bet- 
ter known  in  society  or  among  the  habitues 
of  the  rides  and  drives  than  is  Mr.  Perkins. 
Although  he  has  attained  more  than  the 


JAMES  E.  HAYES, 

Sheriff,  Stratford  County. 


usual  number  of  years  allowed  to  the  aver- 
age man,  of  even  the  most  robust  health, 
Mr.  Perkins  is  active,  energetic  and 
sparkling  with  the  spirit  of  vigorous  man- 
hood. No  social  gathering  is  quite  com- 
plete without  his  presence.  He  has  en- 
joyed the  friendship  of  some  of  the  great- 
est men  of  the  metropolis,  past  and  pres- 
ent, and  his  beautiful  residence  amid  the 
trees  of  Washington  Heights  is  fragrant 
with  memories  of  these  men  who  have 
from  time  to  time  enjoyed  the  stately  but 
cordial  hospitality  which  is  a  pleasing  fea- 
ture of  his  home  life.  _ 

James  E,  Hayes. 

James  E.  Hayes 
was  bom  April  13, 
1840,  on  the  old 
homestead  at  Fajrming- 
ton,  which  his  great- 
grandfather, Daniel 
Hayes,  cleared  from 
the  wilderness.  The 
homestead  was  also  the 
birthplace  of  Daniel 
Hayes,  Jr.,  the  grand- 
father, and  of  his  son, 
Richard  Hayes,  the 
father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  Richard 
Hayes  married  Martha 
A.  Edgerly  of  Far- 
mington,  who  bore  him 
two  children,  Annie 
M.  Hayes,  who  mar- 
ried Alvah  M.  Kimball, 
and  James  E.  Hayes. 
In  1882  Mr.  Hayes 
erected,  in  his  native 
town,  a  factory  for  the 
manufacture  of  heels  for  boots  and  shoes, 
which  is  now  in  charge  of  his  son,  Eugene 
B.  Hayes.  The  marked  popularity  of  Mr. 
Hayes  was  attested  in  the  flattering  vote 
by  which  he  was  chosen  to  his  present  re- 
sponsible position  in  1895.  For  many 
years  he  had  served  as  a  Deputy  Sheriff 
and  his  appointment  to  the  position  of 
Sheriff  of  Straff ord  County  was  but 
a  just  tribute  to  his  merit.  Although  prac- 
tically a  stranger  to  public  functions,  Mr. 
Hayes'  incumbency  of  the  sheriff's  office 
has  been  an  eminently  able  one,  the  many 


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problems  constantly  arising  in  connection 
with  his  multifarious  duties  being  handled 
with  care  and  discretion.  Mr.  Hayes  also 
acts  as  Keeper  of  the  Jail.  In  politics  he 
is  a  firm  supporter  of  Republican  princi- 
ples, having  cast  his  first  vote  for  Abra- 
ham Lincoln.  •  He  represented  the  town 
of  Farmington  in  the  state  legislature  in 
1872  and  in  1887  was  elected  selectman 
of  the  town.  He  was  married  Nov.  24, 
1870,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Peavey  of  Far- 
mington, a  daughter  of  John  L.  and  Emily 
Furber  Peavey,  and  has  two  sons,  Eugene 
B.  Hayes,  deputy  sheriff,  and  manager  of 
his  heel  factory  at  Farmington,  and  John 
R.  Hayes,  a  student. 


Union  Electric  Railway. 

This  company  which  now  controls  the 
street  transportation  of  passengers  in  Do- 
ver and  vicinity  is  well  worthy  of  extended 
notice  in  this  work.  Its  growth  has  been 
marvellous  and  in  complete  harmony  with 
the  progress  of  the  age,  providing  unri- 
valled facilities  for  public  pleasure  and 
convenience. 

When  in  the  early  part  of  1882  the 
idea  of  a  street  railway  was  first  conceived 
by.  Mr.  Harrison  Haley  it  was  looked  upon 
as  a  wild  scheme,  too  much  for  the  little 
city  of  Dover,  but,  notwithstanding  the 
opposition  and  ridicule  of  the  enterprise, 
by  the  perseverance  of  Mr.  Haley  the  nec- 
essary capital,  $20,000,  was  subscribed  by 
liberal  and  public-spirited  citizens  who  at 
that  time  had  no  assurance  of  ever  receiv- 
ing any  return  for  the  money  subscribed, 
but  were  confident  it  would  be  a  great 
public  good.  It  did,  however,  pay  dividends. 

The  building  of  the  road  between  Saw- 
yer's and  Garrison  Hill  was  commenced 
in  the  spring  of  1882  the  work  being 
pushed  on  so  rapidly  that  by  the  follow- 
ing July  the  first  cars  were  run  over  the 
new  road,  a  distance  of  two  and  one-half 
miles. 

The  old  road  succeeded  for  some  years 
and  was  greatly  appreciated,  but  the  great 
development  of  electricity  showed  the  fu- 
tility of  attempting  to  run  cars  on  anti- 
quated principles  while  the  new  power  of 
electricity  could  be  procured  upon  fa- 
vorable terms.  The  consequence  has 


been  that  the  horse-cars  have  given  place 
entirely  to  the  modern  and  expensively 
fitted  trolley-cars ;  and  the  application 
of  electricity  as  a  motive  power  has 
contributed  much  to  the  convenience  of 
the  traveling  public. 

Since  the  formation  of  the  present  com- 
pany the  management  has  been  constantly 
making  improvements  and  the  change  has 
been  decidedly  beneficial  to  Dover.  The 
entire  roadbed  between  Sawyer's  Mills 
and  the  city  of  Somersworih,  the  termi- 
nals of  the  line,  has  been  rebuilt  and  new 
sixty-foot  bixty-pound  steel  rails  laid.  In 
the  city  limits  a  steel  girder  rail  has  been 
employed  which  can  be  paved  with  granite 
blocks  between  the  tracks.  The  cost  of 
this  improvement,  including  labor  and 
auxiliary  expenses,  has  been  very  great. 
But  the  inestimable  benefits  derived  from 
a  well-equipped  railway  like  ours  are 
practical  as  well  as  sentimental.  Suburbs 
are  opened  up  and  made  more  accessible 
from  the  city,  thereby  diffusing  the  popu- 
lation, improving  the  health  of  the  people 
and  largely  increasing  the  number  of 
house  owners. 

One  of  the  greatest  attractions  of  the 
road  is  Central  Park,  which  is  situated  on 
the  line  of  the  Union  Electric  Railway,  mid- 
way between  the  cities  of  Dover  and 
Somersworth,  and  contains  twenty  acres 
of  hill  and  dale,  woodland  and  plain. 
Bounded  on  the  west  by  Lake  Wiljand,  a 
body  of  water  called  in  the  land  grants 
"  The  Great  Pond,"  and  as  early  as  1674 
named  "  Cochecho  Pond,"  or  "  the  pond 
of  the  Cochecho."  The  Indian  tribe  who 
massacred  Maj.  Waldron  and  burned  the 
garrison  over  his  body  at  Dover,  June  27,  • 
1689,  often  tented  around  this  sheet  of 
water  as  a  fishing  ground. 

The  air  at  the  Park  is  of  the  purest  and 
best.  A  good,  cool  breeze  can  be  enjoyed 
there  in  the  hottest  of  weather.  The 
scenery  around  the  lake  is  beautiful.  A 
fleet  of  boats  is  there,  and  a  party  can 
spend  an  hour  in  pleasure  rowing  and 
sailing  about  the  lake,  or,  if  they  do  not 
care  to  row  or  sail,  they  can  charter  a 
steam  launch  at  a  very  small  expense,  and 
the  trip  around  the  lake  is  a  most  delight- 
ful one. 

This  Park  has  all   of  the    accompani- 


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ments  required  for  first-class  grounds  for 
picnic  or  excursion  parties.  There  is  a 
large  Casino  building,  50x150  feet,  two 
stories,  containing  a  large  banquet  hall 
and  kitchen  on  the  lower  floor,  and  a  fine 
exhibition  hall  above.  Also  a  Pavilion, 
50  x  150  feet,  which  can  be  used  for  meet- 
ings, entertainments,  dances,  etc.  A 
lawn  tennis  ground,  suitably  enclosed, 
and  a  base  ball  and  foot  ball  ground,  with 
an  amphitheatre  of  1500  seats,  gives  a 
splendid  opportunity  for  either  of  these 
popular  games.  There  is  also  a  fine  track 
for  bicycle  races.  The  grounds  are 


than  this  delightful  resort.  It  is  of  easy 
access,  and  excursion  parties  over  the 
Boston  &  Maine  R.  R.,  Portsmouth  and 
Dover,  and  Northern  divisions  of  the  Bos- 
ton &  Maine  can  be  furnished  with  elec- 
tric cars  from  Dover  and  Somersworth  to 
the  Park.  The  proprietors  of  the  Park 
have  expended  large  sums  to  make  it  the 
most  attractive  possible.  Arrangements 
can  be  made  for  reduced  transportation 
over  all  the  divisions  of  Boston  &  Maine 
road  for  picnics  and  excursions.  The  use 
of  the  Park  is  free  to  all  picnic  and  ex- 
cursion parties.  Information  relative  to 


INTERIOR  FURBER  AND  WIGGIN'S  STORE. 


lighted  by  electricity,  are  furnished  with 
seats,  swings,  picnic  tables,  etc.  Ice  wa- 
ter tanks  are  well  distributed  over  the 
grounds  throughout  the  summer  season. 
The  walks  and  grounds  are  in  fine  condi- 
tion. No  liquors  are  sold  in  or  around 
the  Park.  An  efficient  police  will  also  see 
to  it  that  no  disorder  is  permitted. 
Churches  and  societies  in  the  surrounding 
towns  which  are  to  hold  picnics  the  com- 
ing season  should  not  forget  that  Central 
Park  is  one  of  the  most  delightful  spots 
to  be  found  in  New  England.  Here  every 
convenience  is  supplied,  and  there  is  no 
place  better  adapted  for  pleasure  parties 


the  Park  and  Electric  Railway  can  be  ob- 
tained of  H.  C.  Weston,  Superintendent. 
The  following  are  the  directors  of  the 
company  : — Sumner  Wallace,  Albert  Wal- 
lace, Geo.  S.  Wallace,  James  E.  Lothrop, 
Harrison  Haley.  President,  Sumner 
Wallace  ;  Vice  President,  Geo.  E.  Wallace  ; 
Treasurer,  Harry  Hough ;  Superintendent, 
H.  C.  Weston. 


D.  L.  Forber  and  Wiggin. 

The  manufacture  of  ladies'  and  gents' 
fine  hand-sewed  boots  and  shoes  in  Dover 
was  begun  by  Mr.  D.  L.  Furber  in  1884 


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in  his  present  factory,  rear  of  101  Wash- 
ington Street,  and  under  his  intelligent 
direction  the  enterprise  has  been  guided 
on  to  a  highly  successful  and  prosperous 
career,  the  output  increasing  annually  and 
keeping  fifteen  hands  constantly  employed. 
Mr.  Furber  is  the  inventor  of  Furber's 
Patent  Elastic  Band  Bicycle  shoes  which 
have  become  so  popular  with  wheelmen 
and  also  manufactures  golf,  football 
and  sporting  footwear  for  the  trade.  He 
personally 
supervises  all 
the  processes 
of  construc- 
tion and  his 
practical  ex- 
perience i  n 
the  business 
enables  him 
to  secure  per- 
fect produc- 
t  i  o  n.  The 
best  materi- 
a  1  s,  leather, 
findings,  etc. 
are  utilized 
and  the  entire 
output  of  the 
factory  is  cus- 
tom work  and 
u  n  e  x  c  elled 
for  genuine 
merit,  being 
unsurpa  s  s  ed 
for  finish, 
style  and  last- 
ing qualities. 
The  factory 
measures  60 
x  20  feet  and 
is  well 
equipped 
with  heel- 
finishing  and  other  special  machinery  for 
the  proper  carrying  on  of  the  business, 
and  is  lighted  by  electricity.  In  March 
last  Mr.  Furber  admitted  Mr.  C.  F.  Wig- 
gin  to  partnership  when  the  style  of  the 
firm  became  as  at  present.  In  the  retail 
store  located  at  the  same  address  and  fac- 
ing on  Washington  Street,  the  products  of 
the  factory  are  retailed  and  an  excellent 
and  ever  growing  demand  has  been  cre- 


ated for  these  goods.  The  partners  are  men 
of  large  business  capacity  and  practical 
experience  who  have  made  the  shoe  indus- 
try a  life  study.  They  are  highly  esteemed 
in  trade  circles  for  their  skill  and  just 
methods  and  have  built  up  a  business  alike 
creditable  to  their  industry  and  enterprise. 


THE  E.  MORRILL   FURNITURE  CO.'S  STORE. 


The  E.  Morrill  Furniture  Co. 

For  over  half  a  century  the  name  of 
Morrill  has 
been  associat- 
ed with  the 
fu  r  n  i  t  u  r  e 
trade  in  Do- 
ver, the  orig- 
inal business 
having  been 
founded  by  E. 
Morrill  in  the 
same  building 
where  the 
present  con- 
cern is  loca- 
ted. 

In  1886 
Henry  J. 
Grimes  and 
Charles  E. 
Gate  ac- 
quired the 
business 
which  is  cen- 
trally located 
in  the  five 
story  building 
93  Washing- 
ton str  e  e  t , 
four  buildings 
in  all  being 
utilized  with 
a  total  floor 
space  of  29,- 
house  bears  an 
the  superiority 


900  square  feet.  The 
excellent  reputation  for 
of  its  goods  and  the  honorable  character 
of  its  management.  Through  the  energy 
and  application  of  the  partners  in  catering 
to  the  requirements  of  their  patrons  they 
have  developed  and  retained  a  patronage 
of  the  most  desirable  nature,  extending 
throughout  this  and  the  surrounding  coun- 
ties and  each  year  sees  their  popularity 


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and  entire  trade  increase.  The  establish- 
ment is  fitted  up  in  the  most  approved 
style,  with  every  convenience  for  the  ac- 
commodation and  display  of  goods  and 
the  reception  of  customers.  The  im- 
mense stock  carried  is  well  worthy  of  ex- 
amination, representing  as  it  does  the 
products  of  the  leading  manufacturers  of 
the  kind  in  the  country.  The  assortment 
embraces  elegant  parlor  suits,  chairs  and 
lounges,  chamber  suits  in  profuse  variety, 
hall,  library,  office  and  kitchen  furniture, 
draperies,  carpets,  mattings,  rugs,  and  up- 
holstery goods.  The  firm  make  a  specialty 
of  the  manufacturing  and  upholstering  of 
fine  parlor  furniture,  ten  skilled  men  be- 
ing constantly  employed.  Both  a  jobbing 
and  retail  trade  is  carried  on  and  cus- 
tomers can  at  all  times  depend  upon  re- 
ceiving the  best  goods  at  the  lowest  price 
the  market  affords. 

The  partners  are  both  natives  of  this 
city  where  they  also  received  their  edu- 
cation, Mr.  Gate  subsequently  taking  a 
course  at  the  New  Hampton  Business  Col- 
lege. They  have  both  received  a  thorough 
and  practical  business  experience  which 
they  apply  intelligently  in  the  furthering 
of  their  patrons'  interests.  Mr.  Grimes 
is  a  member  of  the  Dover  Lodge  of  Elks 
and  Mr.  Gate  belongs  to  the  I.  O.  O.  F. 


The  Shoe  Industry. 


The  making  of  shoes  for  the  Southern 
and  Western  markets  has  come  to  be 
recognized  as  a  leading  and  fast  growing 
industry  in  the  city.  Employment  is  af- 
forded to  several  hundred  of  our  citizens 
in  the  different  shoe  shops  and  their  lo- 
cation in  our  city  has  added  to  its  prestige 
as  a  great  manufacturing  centre. 

Almost  every  variety  of  footwear  is 
manufactured  here,  and  every  device  that 
would  add  beauty  to  appearance  or  com- 
fort in  the  wearing  has  been  studied  out 
and  adopted  by  the  local  manufacturers. 

The  concentration  of  skilled  labor  at 
certain  points,  in  obedience  to  forces  that 
cannot  always  be  defined,  but  which  can 
never  be  successfully  opposed,  has  made 
possible  the  origin  and  growth  of  the  in- 
dustrial centres  of  New  England.  The 
business  of  shoemaking  once  well  estab- 


lished here,  the  dictates  of  convenience, 
economy  and  good  business  management 
alike  suggest  to  the  manufacturer  the  ad- 
vantage of  pursuing  it  in  Dover. 

J.  H.  IRELAND  &  CO. 

The  business  of  this  representative  con- 
cern was  founded  in  1894  by  J.  H.  Ire- 
land, E.  P.  Dodge  and  H.  B.  Little  and 
under  their  intelligent  direction  the  en- 
terprise has  been  guided  to  a  successful 
and  highly  prosperous  career.  The  fine 
building  occupied  for  the  business  was 
erected  by  the  Djver  Improvement  Asso- 
ciation. It  is  a  five  story  brick  building 
measuring  250  x  50  feet  and  is  equipped 
in  admirable  style  with  modern  improved 
machinery,  operated  by  steam  power,  and 
in  the  various  departments  of  work  em- 
ployment is  given  to  400  skilled  hands. 
The  company  manufactures  women's  and 
misses'  shoes  of  medium  grade,  the  ca- 
pacity of  the  factory  being  seventy-five 
sixty-pair  cases  a  day.  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Mathews 
is  superintendent  of  the  factory  and  his 
practical  experience  as  a  shoemaker  en- 
ables him  to  secure  perfect  production  in 
all  departments.  The  trade  of  the  con- 
cern extends  generally  throughout  the 
United  States  and  the  annual  volume  of 
transactions  shows  a  steady  increase  each 
succeeding  year. 

CHARLES  H.  MOULTON  i  CO. 

Thirteen  years  ago  this  business  was 
inaugurated  in  Dover  by  L.  W.  Nute  & 
Co.,  but  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Nute  in 
1888  Mr.  Charles  H.  Moulton  became 
proprietor  and  about  one  year  ago  admit- 
ted Mr.  W.  H.  Moody  into  partnership. 
The  premises  occupied  were  built  by  the 
Dover  Improvement  Association.  They 
are  spacious  in  size,  the  factory  being  a 
four  story  wooden  structure  measuring 
150  x  50  feet,  with  a  storehouse  100  x 
50  feet  in  dimensions.  The  various  de- 
partments are  equipped  with  the  latest 
improved  tools,  machinery  and  appliances 
known  to  the  trade.  Two  hundred  hands 
are  employed  in  turning  out  men's  heavy 
pegged  and  nailed  shoes,  creedmoors  and 
ties  which  find  a  ready  market  in  the 
south  and  west.  The  products  of  the 
shop  are  all  of  the  best  quality  and  work- 


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manship  and  none  but  first  class  hands 
are  employed  in  their  manufacture.  Mr. 
F.  J.  Boyden  is  superintendent  of  the 
factory  and  is  a  thoroughly  practical  man 
who  is  acquainted  with  every  detail  of  the 
business.  He  has  resided  in  Dover  for 
the  past  thirty-three  years  and  is  deserved- 
ly popular. 

THE  BRADLEY-SAYWARD  SHOE  CO. 

This  company  are  manufacturers  of 
men's,  youths'  and  boys'  shoes,  and  can 
justly  lay  claim  to  the  careful  attention  of 
the  trade  throughout  the  country.  The 
company  was  incorporated  in  November, 
1897,  under  the  above  title,  the  previous 
firm  name,  since  its  inception  twenty  years 
ago,  having  been  Bradley  &  Sayward. 
The  present  officers  are  J.  Bradley,  Hud- 
son, Mass.,  president,  and  H.  S.  Sayward, 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  secretary  and  treasurer. 
The  company  has  met  with  pleasing  suc- 
cess, owing  largely  to  the  fact  of  their 
producing  all  the  latest  and  most  approved 
styles  in  boots  and  shoes  including  men's 
heavy  work,  bals,  creedmoors  and  ties,  and 
the  introduction  of  better  methods  in 
their  manufacture.  The  factory  consists 
of  a  four  story  building  measuring  40  x  60 
feet,  thoroughly  equipped  with  the  latest 
machinery  and  appliances,  and  having  a 
productive  capacity  of  600  pairs  of  shoes 
a  day.  Constant  employment  is  given  to 
a  force  of  between  fifty  and  sixty  skilled 
operatives.  The  product  of  the  factory 
finds  a  ready  market,  being  noted  for 
superior  workmanship  and  finish,  having 
all  the  elements  of  durability  with  the 
added  advantage  of  easy  fit  and  attractive 
appearance.  Mr.  E.  I.  Bennett  is  superin- 
tendent and  is  a  thoroughly  practical  shoe- 
maker, conversant  with  all  the  details  of 
the  business. 

j.  H.  HURD  &  SON. 

This  business  was  originally  established 
at  Farmington  in  1850  by  Jojrn  H.  Hurd, 
who  subsequently  removed  it  to  Dover 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  The 
partners  are  John  H.  Hurd  and  Clarence 
I.  Hurd,  who  personally  superintend  the 
details  of  the  business.  The  firm  manu- 
facture split  and  grain  brogans,  plow 
shoes,  creedmoors  and  Dom  Pedros,  all 


their  work  being  standard  screw  and 
pegged,  for  which  they  possess  every  fa- 
cility in  the  way  of  special  machinery  and 
equipment.  The  plant  comprises  a  three 
story  building  100  x  50  feet  in  dimen- 
sions and  the  output  is  500  pairs  a  day, 
fifty  hands  being  employed.  Mr.  J.  H. 
Hurd  is  much  esteemed  in  business  cir- 
cles and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Strafford  Sav- 
ings Bank.  The  house  ships  its  goods  to 
the  southern  and  western  markets  and  also 
exports  to  South  Africa. 

DOVER  HEEL  COMPANY. 

This  concern  does  a  large  business  in 
the  manufacture  of  heels  for  men's  boots 
and  shoes.  The  premises  are  ample  for 
the  requirements  of  the  business  and  are 
equipped  with  all  the  latest  and  most  ap- 
proved machinery  known  to  the  trade. 
About  twenty  hands  are  constantly  em- 
ployed and  the  output  of  the  shop  in- 
creases yearly. 


The  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad. 


The  importance  of  railroads  cannot  be 
ignored  in  this  era  of  progressiveness,  nor 
can  they  be  relegated  to  a  minor  position 
by  any  community  aspiring  to  modern 
methods.  In  its  intermediate  relations 
with  the  Union  at  large,  a  city  must  grant 
railway  communication  equal  considera- 
tion with  all  other  systems  of  transporta- 
tion, for  to  this  medium  more  than  all 
others  yet  devised  by  man's  ingenuity  is 
due  the  present  advanced  state  of  civiliza- 
tion throughout  the  world. 

The  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  was 
originally  chartered  in  1833  as  the  Ando- 
ver  and  Wilmington  R.  R.  and  was  com- 
pleted between  these  towns  and  opened 
for  operation,  August  8,  1836.  It  then 
made  a  connection  with  the  Boston  and 
Lowell  R.  R.  at  Wilmington,  that  being 
the  only  railroad  in  that  vicinity  at  the 
time.  The  Andover  and  Wilmington  R. 
R.  was  extended  to  Bradford  in  1837,  to 
Exeter  in  1840  and  to  a  connection  with 
the  Portland,  Saco  and  Portsmouth  R.  R. 
at  South  Berwick  Junction  in  1842.  The 
lines  in  the  several  states  through  which 
the  road  passed  were  under  different 
names  and  separate  charters.  These 


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roads  were  afterwards  consolidated  under 
the  name  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road. The  business  still  continued  to  be 
transferred  to  the  Boston  &  Lowell  R.  R. 
at  Wilmington  for  Boston  and  intermedi- 
ate points.  About  the  time  that  the  road 
was  completed  to  South  Berwick  Junction 
a  charter  was  obtained  to  extend  it  to 
Boston  independently  of  the  Boston  and 
Lowell  R.  R.  the  change  in  line  being 
made  at  what  is  now  called  Wilmington 
Junction.  The  extension  passed  through 
the  towns  of  Reading,  Melrose  and  Mai- 
den and  was  opened  for  business  to  the 
Haymarket  Square  Station,  Boston,  July 
i,  1845.  The  original  passenger  station 
in  Boston  was  located  on  ground  now  oc- 
cupied by  the  Union  passenger  station, 
but  the  charter  compelled  the  railroad  to 
build  to  Haymarket  Square  and  they  were 
obliged  to  do  so,  but  would  gladly  have 
avoided  that  expense  if  possible  to  do  so 
as  the  company  was  poor  and  could  not 
get  money  easily,  and  the  business  was 
not  enough  to  pay  interest  on  money  al- 
ready expended. 

Dover  was  opened  up  to  railroad  com- 
munication in  1841,  and  is  now  entered 
by  the  Western,  Eastern  and  Northern 
Divisions  of  the  great  Boston  and  Maine 
system  and  is  afforded  with  passenger  and 
freight  facilities  befitting  its  immense  and 
growing  interests.  The  management  of 
the  road  has  ever  been  alive  to  the  needs 
and  demands  of  the  city,  and  to  this,  in  a 
great  degree,  can  be  credited  the  position 
in  which  the  city  now  finds  herself  among 
the  municipalities  of  this  and  the  adjoin- 
ing States.  On  the  Western  Division 
there  are  twenty-four  passenger  trains  in 
and  out  of  Dover  daily,  and  twelve  on 
the  Eastern  Division  (Portsmouth  and 
Dover  Branch).  Those  on  the  latter 
stop  at  Folsom  street  and  Sawyer's,  both 
within  the  city  limits,  and  at  Dover  Point 
and  Cushing's  before  reaching  Ports- 
mouth, a  distance  of  10.88  miles.  In 
1847,  an  act  was  passed  by  the  State  of 
New  Hampshire  authorizing  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Cocheco  Railroad  from  Dover 
to  Alton  Bay.  The  road  was  opened  to 
Farmington  in  1848  and  to  Alton  Bay  in 
1851.  It  was  reorganized  in  1862  under 
the  name  of  Dover  and  Winnipiseogee 


Railroad.  An  operating  contract  was  en- 
tered into  with  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road in  1863  for  a  term  of  fifty  years. 
The  road  was  purchased  by  the  Boston  & 
Maine  Railroad  in  1892,  and  is  now  op- 
erated with  the  Lake  Shore  Branch  of  the 
Concord  &  Montreal  road  as  the  Dover 
&  Lakeport  Branch  (Northern  Division). 
This  road  has  been  the  prime  factor  in 
opening  up  this  delightful  region  to  tour- 
ists and  pleasure  parties  of  which  the 
number  increases  with  each  succeeding 
year.  Two  trains  run  daily  each  way  be- 
tween Dover  and  Lakeport  and  one  to 
Alton  Bay. 

The  present  station  was  erected  in 
1874.  It  is  built  of  brick  and  contains  a 
comfortable  and  well-appointed  waiting- 
room,  toilet  rooms,  offices,  news  stand, 
and  baggage  room.  A  projecting  roof 
protects  passengers  from  the  inclemency 
of  the  weather  in  boarding  trains. 

The  freight  house  is  conveniently  lo- 
cated on  Broadway  about  one  mile  east 
of  the  passenger  station  and  is  a  two  story 
brick  building  measuring  250  x  50  feet  in 
dimensions.  There  are  also  a  carpenter 
shop  and  round  house  and  about  thirty- 
five  men  are  employed.  The  immense 
business  transacted  in  the  freight  depart- 
ment is  shown  by  the  average  monthly 
figures  as  follows :  local  and  foreign 
freight  forwarded  3,336,577  Ibs. ;  local 
and  foreign  freight  received,  year  ending 
June  30,  1898,  9,406,872  Ibs.  George  F. 
Mathes  is  the  general  agent  of  the  com- 
pany at  Dover;  S.  H.  Bell,  ticket  agent; 
T.  L.  Berry,  freight  cashier ;  B.  A.  Dow, 
baggage  master  and  C.  H.  Pemberton, 
assistant  roadmaster. 

The  management  of  the  road  is  con- 
stantly improving  the  rolling  stock  and 
equipment  and  making  the  main  and 
and  branch  lines  as  perfect  as  modern 
science  in  railroad  building  will  permit. 
During  the  present  season  there  will  be 
laid  in  all  about  100  miles  of  new  rail,  75 
and  85  Ib.  pattern. 

Passengers  traveling  over  the  lines  of 
the  Boston  &  Maine  are  carried  to  all 
points  in  the  Lake  and  White  Mountain 
regions  and  to  St.  John,  Halifax  and  Mon- 
treal in  elegantly  appointed  vestibuled 
drawing  room  and  sleeping  cars,  without 


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change,  and  the  accommodations  provided 
are  equal  to  those  of  any  railroad  in  the 
world. 

The  company  employs  about  15,000 
men,  one  thousand  at  the  Union  Station, 
Boston.  The  pay  roll  averages  $8,600,000 
yearly.  'It  owns  and  operates  700  loco- 
motives, 1,200  passenger  cars  and  13,000 
freight  cars.  Six  hundred  regular  trains 
are  run  daily  in  and  out  of  the  Union 
Station,  carrying  100,000  passengers, 
6,000  pieces — 200  truck  loads — of  bag- 
gage, 22,000  Ibs.  of  daily  papers  and  800 
bicycles.  The  general  officers  located  in 
Boston  are  as  follows : — Lucius  Tuttle, 
President;  T.  A.  Mackinnon,  ist  Vice- 
President  and  Gen.  Mgr. ;  Wm.  F.  Berry, 
2d  Vice-Pres.  and  Gen.  Traffic  Mgr. ; 
Frank  Barr,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. ;  A.  Blan- 
chard,  Treasurer ;  H.  E.  Fisher,  Asst. 
Treas. ;  Wm.  ].  Hobbs,  Gen.  Auditor; 
D.  J.  Flanders,  Gen.  Passenger  and  Ticket 
Agent ;  Geo.  E.  Sturtevant,  Asst.  G.  P.  & 
T.  Agt. ;  F.  E.  Brown,  Asst.  G.  P.  &  T. 
A.,  Concord,  N.  H. ;  Geo.  \V.  Storer, 
Asst.  Gen.  Pass.  &  Tkt.  Agt.;  M.  T. 
Donovan,  Gen.  Freight  Agent ;  D.  W. 
Sanborn,  Gen.  .Superintendent ;  T-  A. 
Farrington,  Purchasing  Agt ;  Henry  Bart- 
lett,  Supt.  Motive  Power :  Wm.  Merritt, 
Supt.  Western  Division ;  J.  W.  Sanborn, 
Supt.  Northern  Division,  Sanbornville,  N. 
H. ;  W.  T.  Perkins,  Supt.  Eastern  Divi- 
sion ;  W.  G.  Bean,  Supt.  Southern  Divi- 
sion;  C.  E.  Lee,  Supt.  Wor.  Nash.  & 
Port.  Div.,  Nashua,  N.  H.  ;  H.  E.  Cham- 
berlin,  Supt.  Concord  Div.,  Concord,  N. 
H. ;  H.  E.  Folsom,  Supt.  Connecticut 
and  Passumpsic  Division,  Lyndonville, 
Vt. ;  G.  E.  Cummings,  Supt.  White  Mtns. 
Div.,  Woodsville,  N.  H. ;  H.  E.  Howard, 
Supt.  Car  Service ;  H.  Bissell,  Chief  En- 
gineer; O.  W.  Greeley,  Gen.  Baggage 
Agent ;  A.  C.  Varnum,  New  England 
Passenger  Agent ;  A.  P.  Massey,  Travel- 
ing Passenger  Agent. 

YORK    HARBOR    AND    BEACH    R.    R. 

A  sketch  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road would  not  be  complete  without  a 
reference  to  the  York  Harbor  &  Beach 
R.  R.  which  has  done  so  much  to  pro- 
mote the  comfort  and  convenience  of  the 
many  thousands  in  this  section  who  annu- 
ally avail  themselves  of  the  opportunity  to 


visit  these  delightful  summer  resorts, 
made  possible  by  the  enterprise  of  this 
road.  Prior  to  the  construction  of  the 
Eastern  Railroad  from  Boston  to  Ports- 
mouth and  of  the  Portland,  Saco  and 
Portsmouth  Railroad  between  Portsmouth 
and  Portland,  York  was  on  the  direct  line 
of  the  "  Eastern  Stage  Route  "  from  Port- 
land to  Boston,  which  originally  crossed 
York  river  from  the  point  of  land  on 
which  the  Marshall  House  now  stands  and 
was  called  "Stage  Neck."  When  the 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  was  built 
through  Wells  and  Kennebunk  in  1872 
and  1873,  tne  old  stage  line  was  discon- 
tinued and  a  daily  line  established  from 
Cape  Neddick  to  Portsmouth.  Early 
pilgrims  to  York  well  remember  the  con- 
veniences of  travel  in  those  days. 

In  the  autumn  of  1882  a  public  meet- 
ing was  held  in  York  to  discuss  the  ques- 
tion of  better  facilities  for  transportation, 
which  the  growing  business  of  the  town 
seemed  to  demand.  A  statement  of  the 
business  of  the  town  was  prepared  and 
John  E.  Staples,  Edward  S.  Marshall, 
Henry  E.  Evans  and  John  C.  Stewart 
were  chosen  a  committee  to  wait  upon 
President  E.  B.  Phillips  of  the  Eastern 
R.  R.,  present  the  statement  and  urge  the 
advisability  of  that  company  extending  a 
line  from  Portsmouth  to  York. 

Subsequently  efforts  were  made  to  in- 
duce the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  com- 
pany, which  had  obtained  control  of  the 
Eastern,  to  aid  in  constructing  the  line. 
Hon.  Frank  Jones  of  Portsmouth,  then  a 
director  of  the  Boston  and  Maine,  be- 
came personally  interested  in  the  matter. 
He  had  subscribed  to  the  stock  of  the 
road  and  through  his  influence  Mr.  H. 
Bissell,  the  chief  engineer  of  the  B.  &  M., 
was  sent  to  examine  the  various  routes 
which  had  been  surveyed.  After  carefully 
examining  them  all  he  reported  to  Mr. 
Jones  and  the  company  upon  the  feasi- 
bility of  each  line. 

October  22,  1886,  the  specifications 
were  completed  and  bids  asked  for  the 
construction  of  the  line.  The  bids  were 
to  be  opened  Monday,  November  ist. 
These  specifications  were  for  a  narrow 
guage  railroad  from  York  Beach  to  a 
point  on  the  line  of  the  B.  &  M.  about 


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half  a  mile  east  of  Kittery  Depot,  now 
Kittery  Junction. 

When  Mr.  Jones  saw  the  prospect  of  a 
narrow  guage  road  fast  becoming  a  cer- 
tainty he  at  once  telegraphed  the  Direc- 
tors to  postpone  all  contracts  until  a  con- 
ference could  be  had  between  the  Direct- 
ors of  the  two  companies.  This  was 
done.  A  committee  of  the  directors  of 
the  Y.  H.  &  B.  met  a  similar  committee 
of  the  B.  &  M.  and  the  result  was  an 
agreement 
that  the  Y.  H. 
&  B.  R.  R. 
Co.  would 
give  a  right  of 
way  from  Kit- 
tery Junction 
to  the  termi- 
nus of  the 
road  and  take 
$50,000  of 
the  stock. 
The  B.  &  M. 
would  furnish 
the  balance 
of  the  money 
to  complete 
the  road  and 
take  the  stock 
certificates — 
as  bonds  were 
to  be  issued — 
also  furnish 
all  rolling 
stock  and 
equipments  at 
actual  cost, 
give  the  Y.  H. 
&  B.  R.  R. 
the  free  use  of 
the  main  line 
from  Kittery 
Junction  to 

Portsmouth,  together  with  all  terminal  fa- 
cilities in  Portsmouth  until  the  Y.  H.  &  B. 
stock  should  pay  a  dividend  of  five  per 
cent,  and  construct  a  standard  guage  road. 

The  first  contract  was  let  December  6, 
1886.  Work  was  immediately  begun. 
August  8,  1887,  the  first  train  was  run  to 
Long  Beach.  The  next  week  it  reached 
the  terminus  at  York  Beach.  The  entire 
cost  was  something  over  $300,000. 


GEORGE  F.  MATHES,  GENERAL  AGENT  B.  & 


The  road  is  eleven  miles  long  and 
passes  through  some  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful and  picturesque  scenery  in  the  world. 
Its  route  is  along  the  seashore  which  it 
skirts  at  places  to  the  water's  edge. 
Twelve  round  trips  are  made  between 
Portsmouth  and  York  Beach  daily,  the 
fare  being  but  forty  cents  for  the  round 
trip.  During  the  summer  season  from 
8,000  to  27,000  passengers  are  carried 
each  month.  The  present  managers  of 
this  road  are 
Lucius  Tuttle, 
Pres  i  d  e  n  t  ; 
Samuel  W. 
T  u  n  k  i  n  s  , 
Clerk;  W.  F. 
Berry,  Gen. 
Traffic  Mgr.  ; 
Amos  Blanch- 
ard,  Treasur- 
er ;  W  .  J  . 
Hobbs,  Audi- 
tor ;  Dana  J . 
Flanders, 
General  Pas- 
senger and 
Ticket  Agent; 
M,  T.  Don- 
ovan, Gen. 
Freight 
Agent ;  and 
Wins  1  o  w  T. 
Perkins,  Su- 
perintendent. 

George  F. 
Mathes. 

George  F. 
Mathes,  gen- 
eral agent  of 
the  Boston  & 
Maine  Rail- 
road at  Dover,  was  born  in  Rochester  in 
1856,  and  received  his  education  at  the 
Rochester  High  School.  Upon  the  com- 
pletion of  his  studies  he  went  railroading, 
obtaining  employment  with  the  old  Ports- 
mouth, Great  Falls  &  Conway  Railroad  as 
brakeman,  and  was  subsequently  promoted 
to  be  baggagemaster.  Always  faithful  in 
the  performance  of  his  duties  it  was  not 
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which  capacity  he  served  up  to  the  time 
of  receiving  his  present  important  and 
responsible  position  in  May,  1893.  Mr. 
Mathes  has  proven  himself  to  be  a  man 
of  excellent  executive  ability,  and  dis- 
charges the  duties  of  his  office  in  a  man- 
ner that  has  won  for  him  the  confidence 
of  the  great  company  he  so  ably  repre- 
sents. He  is  also  much  esteemed  by  the 
traveling  public  who  appreciate  his  un- 
failing courtesy  and  the  despatch  with 
which  all  business  matters  are  attended 
to.  Adding  per- 
sonal merit  to  the 
influence  of  place, 
he  may  well  be  ac- 
corded a  position 
among  our  repre- 
sentative business 
men. 

In  1889  Mr. 
Mathes  was  elect- 
ed a  member  of  the 
Const i  tu  tion al 
Convention  which 
assembled  at  Con- 
cord. Four  years 
later  he  represent- 
ed Wolfboro  in  the 
legislature,  serving 
on  various  com- 
mittees, and  dis- 
playing consider- 
able ability  which 
won  him  high 
praise  from  his 
constituents.  Mr. 
Mathes  married  in 
1874,  Fanny  A. 
Parker,  daughter 
of  the  late  Charles 
Ff.  Parker,  editor 

of  the  Granite  State  News,  and  has  one 
son,  Charles  A.  Mathes,  now  twenty-two 
years  of  age  and  a  young  man  of  much 
promise.  Mr.  Mathes  has  a  pleasant  home 
at  26  Sixth  street  and  has  a  large  and  ever 
increasing  circle  of  friends. 


W.  F.  CARTLAND. 


William  F.  Cartland. 

The  number  of  men  who  succeed  in 
life,  although  they  start  in  without  or  al- 
most without  any  capital  is  really  wonder- 


ful and  must  be  primarily  ascribed  to  a 
wonderful  determination  to  overcome  the 
numerous  obstacles  which  impede  the 
pathway  to  prosperity.  A  notable  exam- 
ple of  a  self  made  man  whose  energy,  per- 
severance and  sound  judgment  have 
placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  successful 
business  men,  is  William  F.  Cartland,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Cartland  was  born  in  Parsonfield, 
Me.,  January  5,  1860,  and  acquired  his 
education  at  the  district  school.  Upon 
leaving  school  he 
worked  on  his 
father's  farm,  his 
arduous  labors  em- 
inently fitting  him 
for  the  many  vi- 
cissitudes which 
are  to  be  encoun- 
tered by  the young 
man  beginning  life 
with  only  an  in- 
domitable will 
power  and  an  ac- 
tive brain  as  his 
capital.  At  eigh- 
teen years  of  age 
he  came  to  Dover 
and  entered  the 
employment  of  his 
uncle,  William  P. 
Tuttle,  where  he 
remained  for  three 
years  when  he  en- 
tered the  employ 
of  J.  Frank  Rob- 
erts and  devoted 
himself  assiduous- 
ly to  learning  the 
grocery  business. 
From  Mr.  Rob- 
erts' he  went  to  work  for  W.  S.  Wiggin, 
but  the  spirit  of  enterprise  which  is  one  of 
his  characteristics  was  strong  within  him 
and  his  ambition  led  him  to  seek  broader 
fields  of  usefulness  than  come  within  the 
scope  of  a  grocery  clerk.  He  yearned  to 
have  a  business  of  his  own  where  he  could 
develop  his  latent  powers  and  it  was  not 
long  before  the  opportunity  presented  it- 
self. In  1885  Mr.  Cartland  bought  out 
Mr.  John  Kimball,  of  the  firm  of  Kimball 
&  Tasker,  which  was  then  located  in  the 


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Freeman  Block  where  now  stands  the 
Strafford  Bank  building.  The  firm  of 
Tasker  &  Cartland  was  formed  July  i, 
1885,  and  continued  until  January  i, 
1898,  when  Mr.  Cartland  became  sole 
proprietor  of  the  great  business  which  had 
been  built  up  by  the  perseverance  and 
energy  of  the  firm.  In  1892  the  business 
was  moved  from  the  Freeman  Block  to  a 
portion  of  the  present  premises,  but  the 
growing  demands  made  upon  the  re- 
sources of  the  firm  speedily  compelled 
them  to  secure  larger  premises  with  the 
result  that  two  years  later  the  adjoining 


lighted  by  electricity.  The  exceptionally 
heavy  stock  carried,  which  is  the  largest  in 
southern  New  Hampshire,  embraces  a 
complete  assortment  of  fine  groceries  and 
foreign  delicacies  of  every  description,  and 
a  specialty  is  made  of  family  flours,  coffee, 
tea  and  canned  goods  of  the  choicest 
brands.  None  but  strictly  first  class  goods 
are  kept  in  the  store,  everything  is  guar- 
anteed to  be  exactly  as  represented,  and 
the  prices  which  obtain  are  uniformly  rea- 
sonable. Mr.  Cartland  being  a  large  cash 
purchaser  is  enabled  to  undersell  others 
who  deal  in  smaller  quantities  and  offers 


RESIDENCE  OF  W.  F.  CARTLAND. 


store  was  added,  making  this  the  largest 
grocery  store  in  the  city.  The  largely  in- 
creased volume  of  trade  which  has  result- 
ed from  these  increased  facilities  has 
proven  how  sound  was  the  judgment  which 
prompted  the  move.  The  premises  are 
located  at  41-43  Locust  street  on  which 
they  have  a  frontage  of  forty  feet,  the 
floor  space  occupying  3200  square  feet, 
with  basement,  making  a  total  of  6400 
square  feet,  with  a  large  storehouse  on 
Washington  street.  It  is  neatly  fitted  up 
and  excellently  arranged  throughout,  fitted 
with  handsome  plate  glass  windows  and 


to  his  customers  the  benefit  of  the  dis- 
counts obtained  by  his  wholesale  transac- 
tions. Ten  courteous  assistants  attend  to 
the  requirements  of  customers  and  four 
delivery  teams  are  in  active  service  deliv- 
ering goods.  Mr.  Cartland's  business  has 
steadily  increased  until  it  has  become  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  the  city  of  Dover. 
The  trade  of  the  house  extends  not  only 
throughout  the  city  limits  but  reaches  out 
to  Rochester,  Somersworth,  Exeter,  New- 
market and  Berwick,  Me.  The  purchas- 
ing and  distribution  of  the  stock  show 
that  it  is  selected  with  the  care  character- 


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INTERIOR  VIEW  OF  GROCERY  STORE  OF  W.  F.  CARTLAND. 


INTERIOR  VIEW  OF  GROCERY  STORE  OF  W.  F.  CARTLAND. 


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istic  of  a  prudent,  wide  awake  and  thor- 
ough business  man,  catering  for  a  strictly 
first  class  trade  and  anxious  to  meet  the 
demandsof  his  patrons. 
Mr.  Cartland  is  a 
good  type  of  the  self 
made  man,  who  rises 
by  his  own  exertions 
from  a  moderate  be- 
ginning to  a  foremost 
place  in  his  particular 
trade.  He  has  a 
handsome  residence 
on  Highland  street, 
surrounded  by  tasteful- 
ly laid  out  grounds  and 
is  looked  upon  as  one 
of  Dover's  ablest  and 
most  successful  busi- 


George    D.    Barrett. 

The  steady  growth 
of  Dover  has  rendered 
active  the  operations 
in  real  estate,  and  the 
development  of  the  in- 


GEORGE   D.   BARRETT. 


and  conducts  the  largest  fire  insurance 
business  in  the  city,  representing  fifteen 
of  the  largest  American  and  English  com- 
panies, whose  com- 
bined assets  are  over 
$50,000,000.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of 
the  general  manage- 
ment of  estates,  taking 
the  entire  charge,  se- 
curing responsible  ten- 
ants, effecting  repairs, 
and  in  every  way 
maintaining  the  prop- 
erty up  to  the  highest 
productive  standard. 
Mr.  Barrett  has  always 
upon  his  books  the  best 
available  bargains  in 
lands,  houses,  stores, 
etc.  He  also  effects 
exchanges  of  real  es- 
tate, secures  loans  to 
any  amount  on  bond 
or  mortgage  security, 
and  sells  administra- 
tors, executors  and  all 
kinds  of  suretv  bonds 


G.  D.  BARRETT'S  OFFICE. 


dustries  of  the  city  are  constantly  increas- 
ing the  value  of  property  and  making  its 
possession  most  valuable.  Mr.  Barrett  is 
the  acknowledged  leading  real  estate  agent 


at  a  very  small  cost.  The  extent  of  his 
business  and  his  splendid  facilities  enable 
him  to  meet  all  demands  made  upon  his 
resources  in  a  thoroughly  satisfactory 


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manner.  Mr.  Barrett  was  born  at  Ed- 
meston,  N.  Y.,  December  4,  1864,  and 
was  educated  at  Colgate  University.  He 
engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in 
Rome,  N.  Y.,  for  some  years,  coming  to 
Dover  in  July,  1894.  His  office  is  loca- 
ted in  the  Masonic  Temple.  During  his 
residence  in  Dover  he  has  proved  himself 
a  thoroughly  public-spirited  citizen,  and 
has  always  given  a  hearty  support  to  every 
measure  best  calculated  to  advance  the 
city's  interests.  Mr.  Barrett  is  secretary 
of  the  Dover  Co-operative  bank  and  of 
the  Dover  Commercial  club,  and  works 
diligently  to  promote  the  welfare  of  both 
organizations. 


rooms  for  guests  are  provided  with  all  the 
improvements  of  modern  hotel  life,  in- 
cluding electric  call  bells,  gas  and  electric 
lights  and  steam  heat. 

The  American  was  opened  in  June, 
1867,  by  Peirce  and  True,  the  present 
partnership  of  A.  T.  Peirce  and  Thomas 
K.  Cushman  being  formed  ten  years  later. 
Both  the  partners  have  had  an  extended 
experience  in  the  hotel  business  and  know 
how  to  minister  to  the  requirements  of 
their  guests  so  as  to  insure  their  comfort. 

Col.  Adams  T.  Peirce,  who  was  chairman 
of  the  legislative  Committee  on  County 
Affairs  and  a  member  of  the  Committee 
on  National  Affairs,  was  born  in  1844  at 


THE  AMERICAN. 


The  American. 


The  American  under  the  direction  of 
A.  T.  Peirce  &  Co.  is  one  of  the  best 
known  hotels  in  this  section.  Situated  on 
Central  avenue,  facing  Franklin  square,  in 
the  commercial  centre  of  the  city  and 
within  two  minutes  walk  of  the  B.  &  M. 
station,  its  location  is  singularly  conven- 
ient for  the  requirements  of  the  traveling 
public.  The  building  is  a  handsome  three 
and  a  half  story  brick  structure,  originally 
erected  as  a  private  residence  and  since 
considerably  enlarged  by  its  present  pro- 
prietors. It  is  furnished  and  decorated 
throughout  in  a  tasteful  manner  and  the 


North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  receiving  his  edu- 
cation at  the  South  Paris  Academy.  He 
is  chairman  of  the  Republican  City  Com- 
mittee and  ex-president  of  the  Dover 
Commercial  Club,  a  member  of  the  Amos- 
keag  Veterans,  Manchester,  and  of  the 
Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany, Boston.  Colonel  Peirce  served  as  U. 
S.  Marshal  from  the  district  of  New  Hamp- 
shire from  1890  to  1894.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  staff  of  the  late  Governor  Weston, 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  several  secret  orders,  among  them 
Mt.  Pleasant  Lodge  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Wana- 
lanset  Tribe  of  Red  Men  and  has  been 
commander  of  Canton  Parker  No.  3,  P.  M. 


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Thomas  K.  Cushman  is  a  native  of 
New  Gloucester,  Me.,  and  received  his 
education  at  the  High  school  there.  Upon 
leaving  school  he  learned  the  trade  of 
carriage  maker  at  New  Haven,  Conn., 
which  he  followed  until  1862  when  he 
enlisted  in  the  Fifteenth  Connecticut  In- 
fantry from  which  he  was  transferred 
to  the  Eighth  Conn.  Regiment  and 
saw  service  at  Fredericksburg,  Peters- 


Colonel  Daniel  Hall. 

Daniel  Hall  was  born  in  Barrington, 
February  28,  1832.  His  first  known 
American  ancestor  was  John  Hall,  who 
appears  to  have  come  to  Dover  in  1649 
with  his  brother  Ralph  from  Charlestown, 
Mass.  Mr.  Daniel  Hall's  life  as  a  boy 
was  on  the  farm.  He  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  and  when  about  sixteen  years 


COLONEL  DANIEL  HALL. 


burg  and  Richmond.  Upon  leaving 
the  army  he  went  to  the  Tontine 
House,  Brunswick,  Me.,  then  kept  by 
Colonel  Peirce  and  subsequently  spent 
two  years  at  the  Kimball  House,  Atlanta, 
Ga.  He  left  the  Kimball  House  to 
enter  into  partnership  with  Colonel  Peirce 
at  Claremont  and  from  thence  came  to 
Dover  in  1877  to  form  the  present 
partnership. 


of  age  secured  two  terms  in  the  Strafiford 
academy.  In  1849  he  spent  one~term  at 
the  New  Hampshire  Conference  Semi- 
nary, Northfield,  N.  H.,  after  which  he 
prepared  himself  for  Dartmouth  College, 
which  he  entered  in  1850.  In  i8~54  he 
graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class  and  was 
valedictorian. 

In  the  fall  of  1854  he  was  appointed  a 
clerk  in  the  New  York    Custom    House 


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93 


and  held  this  position  until  March,  1858, 
when  he  was  removed  from  office  on  ac- 
count of  his  marked  antipathy  to  the  Kan- 
sas-Nebraska bill.  While  in  New  York 
he  entered  upon  the  study  of  the  law  and 
continued  his  studies,  upon  returning  to 
Dover,  in  the  office  of  the  late  Hon.  Dan- 
iel M.  Christie,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
irf  the  May  term,  1860.  He  opened  an 
office  at  Dover  and  commenced  practice. 
In  1859  he  was  appointed  by  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  School  Commissioner 
for  Strafford  County  and  re -appointed  in 
1860.  He  was  appointed  secretary  of 
the  United  States  Committee  to  investi- 


himself,  but  in  1863  his  health  suffered 
and  he  was  forced  to  leave  the  front  in 
December,  1863.  In  June,  1864,  he 
was  appointed  provost-marshal  of  the  First 
New  Hampshire  District  at  Portsmouth 
where  he  remained  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law 
in  Dover.  He  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Strafford  County  in 
1866  and  Judge  of  the  Police  Court  in 
1868,  an  office  he  acceptably  filled  until 
1874.  In  the  meantime  he  had  been 
Judge  Advocate  with  the  rank  of  major  in 
the  military  of  New  Hampshire  under 
Governor  Smythe  and  held  a  position  on 


RESIDENCE  OF  COLONEL  DANIEL  HALL. 


gate  the  surrender  of  the  Norfolk  Navy 
Yard  in  1861.  Afterwards  he  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  of  the  Senate  Committee  on 
Naval  Affairs  at  Washington  in  which  ca- 
pacity he  served  until  March,  1862,  when 
he  was  commissioned  aide-de-camp  and 
captain  in  the  regular  army.  He  was  as- 
signed to  duty  with  General  John  C.  Fre- 
mont who,  however,  retired  from  his 
command,  and  Captain  Hall  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  staff  of  General  A.  W.  Whip- 
pie.  During  his  service  Captain  Hall 
participated  in  the  battles  of  Antietam, 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettys- 
burg, and  others,  winning  distinction  for 


the  staff  of  Governor  Harriman  which 
gave  him  his  usual  title  of  Colonel. 
Colonel  Hall  was  president  of  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention  at  Concord  in 
1873.  He  had  been  for  some  years  a 
member  of  the  Republican  State  Com- 
mittee, when  in  1873  he  was  selected  as 
chairman  of  that  committee  continuing  so 
until  1877.  He  was  also  chairman  of 
the  New  Hampshire  delegation  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  at  Cin- 
cinnati in  1876,  and  in  1876-77  was,  by 
appointment  of  Governor  Cheney,  report- 
er of  the  decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  New  Hampshire.  In  187  7  he  succeed- 


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ed  Governor  Harriman  as  naval  officer  at 
the  port  of  Boston,  an  office  co-ordinate 
with  that  of  collector,  and  was  upon  the 
expiration  of  his  term  re -appointed  by 
President  Arthur  for  a  further  term  of 
four  years.  He  is  at  present  a  director 
of  the  Strafford  National  bank,  trustee  of 
the  Strafford  Savings  bank  and  trustee  of 
the  Dover  Public  Library,  and  has  ever 
used  his  great  influence  to  advance  the  in- 
terests and  prosperity  of  the  city.  Colonel 
Hall  has  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  passing 
through  all  its  chairs.  He  was  Depart- 
ment Commander  of  New  Hampshire  in 
1892  and  is  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States.  Colonel  Hall  married 
January  25,  1877,  Sophia,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  T.  and  Sarah  (Hanson)  Dodge 
of  Rochester  and  has  one  son,  Arthur 
Wellesley  Hall,  born  August  30,  1878. 
The  beautiful  residence  erected  by  him  at 
the  corner  of  Summer  and  Belknap  streets 
and  adorned  with  cultivated  taste,  has 
not  its  least  charm  in  a  splendid  library 
of  carefully  selected  literature. 

Public  addresses  have,  as  occasions  de- 
manded, exhibited  the  thoughtful  political 
student,  a  patriotic  love  of  country,  and 
the  ripeness  of  the  accomplished  scholar. 
Some  permanent  evidence  of  his  power 
as  a  scholar  and  orator  may  be  found  in 
a  volume  published  by  him  in  1892,  en- 
titled "  Occasional  Addresses,"  and  con- 
taining addresses  on  Abraham  Lincoln, 
Ulysses  S.  Grant,  Daniel  M.  Christie,  John 
P.  Hale,  John  B.  Gough,  Governor  Ed- 
ward F.  Noyes,  and  other  topics. 

Fidelity  to  every  engagement,  good 
faith  to  every  principle  espoused,  firm- 
ness in  determination,  great  industry  and 
usefulness  in  every  work  undertaken  have 
insured  him  success. 

Colonel  Hall  enjoys  the  admiration  of 
his  fellow  citizens  at  large  for  unusual 
gifts  as  a  scholar  and  public  speaker, 
while  the  strength  and  sincerity  of  his  po- 
litical convictions,  the  influence  he  has 
uniformly  exerted  for  the  triumph  of  poli- 
cies which  he  deems  essential  for  the  good 
of  the  state  and  nation,  and  his  integrity 
in  public  and  private  life,  entitle  him,  in 
the  opinion  of  his  numerous  friends,  to 


higher  honors  than  any  he  has  received. 


Hon.  J.  W.  Jewell. 

Hon.  John  Woodman  Jewell,  General 
Agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
was  born  in  Strafford,  N.  H.,  July  26, 1831. 
In  early  life  he  learned  to  labor,  being  put 
at  work  in  his  father's  tanyard  and  curry- 
ing shop  where  he  mastered  all  its  details, 
but  not  liking  the  business,  at  the  age  of 
eighteen,  with  his  father's  consent,  he 
hired  out  on  a  farm — not  being  physically 
strong,  in  a  short  time  was  taken  sick  with 
hemorrhages  of  the  stomach  and  was 
obliged  to  remain  quiet  for  a  long  time. 
After  his  recovery,  having  had  but  limited 
school  privileges,  averaging  not  more  than 
six  weeks  a  year  in  the  town  schools,  he 
entered  Strafford  Seminary  (now  Austin 
Academy)  and  afterwards  attended  Gil- 
mantoji__Academy  for  several  terms, 
teaching  school  winters.  In  1853  he  en- 
tered a  store  in  Newmarket  as  clerk 
where  he  remained  about  a  year  when  he 
returned  to  his  native  town  and  entered 
the  employ  of  the  late  Hon.  Benning  W. 
Jenness  as  clerk  in  his  store  with  whom  he 
remained  for  ten  years,  until  Mr.  Jenness 
removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  when  he 
succeeded  him  in  business.  He  was  suc- 
cessful, did  a  large  business  and  was  the 
leading  business  man  of  the  town  for 
thirty  years.  In  politics  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat and  took  an  active  part  in  all  politi- 
cal questions,  and  was  frequently  honored 
by  his  townsmen  with  different  offices  in 
their  gift,  serving  as  moderator,  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  selectman,  and  repre- 
sentative in  the  legislature,  and  was  post- 
master for  ten  years.  He  was  sheriff  of 
Strafford  County  for  two  years,  from  1874 
to  1876,  and  a  member  of  the  Governor's 
Council  two  years,  from  1885  to  1887, 
serving  on  the  State  Prison  Committee, 
committee  to  audit  the  State  Treasurer's 
accounts  and  committee  to  look  after  the 
expenditures  of  the  money  appropriated 
by  the  state  for  repairs  of  the  highways  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  state.  In  1891 
Mr.  Jewell  came  to  Dover  and  took  charge 
of  the  business  of  the  Massachusetts  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company  as  agent  and 


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in  January,  1892,  he  was  appointed  Gen- 
eral Agent  of  the  company.  His  office  is 
at  32  Masonic  Temple.  In  the  life  insur- 
ance business  he  has  been  quite  as  suc- 
cessful as  he  was  in  mercantile  affairs. 
By  earnest,  honest  effort  he  has  built  up  a 
very  lucrative  business.  In  1853  Mr. 
Jewell  married  Miss  Sarah  Folsom  Gale 
of  Upper  Gilmanton  (now  Belmont). 
By  this  union  three  children  were  born  to 
them,  one  son  and  two  daughters.  The 


and  Maria  (Goodhue)  Trickey,  was  born  in 
Brookfield,  Carroll  County,  August  14, 
1833.  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of 
Governor  Thomas  Wiggin  and  is  now  living 
with  Mrs.  Trickey  and  in  full  possession  of 
all  her  faculties,  although  ninety-three  years 
of  age.  Mr.  Trickey  received  his  educa- 
tion at  the  district  school  and  the  academy 
at.Wakefield,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
taught  school  at  New  Durham  where  he 
received  five  dollars  a  month  more  than 


THE  LATE  CHARLES  HENRY  TRICKEY. 


son,  a  bright,  active  and  popular  business 
man,  who  was  associated  with  his  father 
in  business  at  Strafford  under  the  firm 
name  of  J.  W.  Jewell  &  Son,  died  in  1893. 
One  daughter  lives  at  home,  the  other 
is  married  and  resides  in  Manchester. 


The  Late  Charles  Henry  Trickey, 


any  other  teacher  on  account  of  his  suc- 
cessful methods  in  imparting  instruction 
to  his  pupils.  In  1853  he  came  to  Dover 
as  clerk  to  John  E.  Bickford,  merchant 
tailor,  subsequently  becoming  a  partner 
and  finally  buying  out  the  business  which 
he  successfully  conducted  until  1870  when 
he  sold  it.  Mr.  Trickey  then  bought  out 
the  coal,  wood  and  lumber  business  of  M. 


Charles  Henry  Trickey,  son  of  Lemuel      D.  Page  and  also  secured  an  interest  in 


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the'teaming  and  hay  enterprise  of  G.  W. 
Avery,  in  which  he  remained  until  his  de- 
mise February  2,  1896.  In  his  business 
dealings  he  was  singularly  successful,  ow- 
ing largely  to  his  close  personal  attention 
and  the  foresight  he  displayed.  During 
his  lifetime  the  sales  of  coal  increased 
from  600  to  over  10,000  tons  per  annum. 
He  had  a  keen,  quick  perception  of  busi- 
ness, an  intuitive  knowledge  of  cause  and 
effect  and  a  steady  determination  to  do 
exactly  as  he  agreed,  keeping  his  word  in 


through  Mr.  Trickey's  influence  and  at  his 
suggestion  that  the  river  channel  was 
straightened  and  deepened  by  the  govern- 
ment, which  resulted  in  a  considerable  in- 
crease in  the  tonnage  entering  the  port. 
In  politics  Mr.  Trickey  was  an  ardent  Re- 
publican. Quiet  and  unostentatious,  he 
shrank  from  political  honors  and  prefer- 
ment, neither  caring  for  nor  seeking  office, 
although  frequently  urged  to  do  so  by  his 
friends.  In  private  life  he  was  character- 
ized by  modest  and  unassuming  ways  and 


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THE  STRAFFORO  BANKS  BUILDING. 


all /matters  pertaining  to  business.  Mr. 
Trickey  did  not  remain  an  idle  spectator 
of  events  but  largely  interested  himself  in 
all  matters  concerning  the  improvement 
and  development  of  the  community.  He 
worked  zealously  for  the  public  welfare 
and  many  important  public  improvements 
were  instigated  by  him.  He  was  one  of 
the  charter  members  and  a  director  of 
the  Dover  Navigation  Co.,  and  one  of 
their  vessels  was  named  for  him.  It  was 


a  great  attachment  to  home  and  the  home 
circle.  He  was  married  Dec.  25,  1869, 
to  Ada,  daughter  of  ex-Mayor  Albert 
Bond,  and  had  two  children,  Marion  Ger- 
trude, married  to  Rev.  George  A.  Alcott, 
and  Lola  Maude,  now  a  teacher  in  Con- 
necticut. Mr.  Trickey  was  again  married 
April  28,  1886,  to  Georgietta  Hanson,  two 
children  of  this  marriage  surviving  him, 
Charles  Lemuel  and  Mabel  Grace.  Upon 
Mr.  Trickey's  demise  his  widow  under- 


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took  the  conduct  of  the  large  business  of 
her  late  husband  and  has  since  capably 
managed  it. 


The  Strafford  National  Bank. 

The  first  bank  in  Dover  was  incorpo- 
rated by  the  Legislature,  by  an  act  ap- 
proved June  n,  1803,  under  the  name  of 
"  The  President,  Directors,  and  Company 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Strafford  Bank," 
the  charter  being  for  twenty  years.  A 
new  act  extending  its  charter  was  accept- 
ed July  i,  1822. 


John  Currier,  Moses  Paul,  Ezekiel  Kurd, 
Nathaniel  Young,  and  Eleazer  Davis 
Chamberlain.  William  Woodman,  presi- 
dent ;  Asa  A.  Tufts,  cashier. 

On  July  i,  1865,  the  Strafford  Bank 
surrendered  its  state  charter  and  accept- 
ed a  charter  from  the  United  States,  un- 
der the  name  of  the  Strafford  National 
Bank,  the  old  officers  being  re- chosen  to 
the  same  offices  in  the  new  bank.  The 
capital  at  that  time  was  $150,000,  but 
has  since  been  increased  to  $200,000. 
There  is  at  present  a  surplus  of  $120,000 
and  the  deposits  average  $500,000. 


INTERIOR  STRAFFORD  NATIONAL  BANK. 


The  Strafford  Bank  was  incorporated 
by  an  act  passed  July  9,  1846,  to  continue 
to  June  i,  1867.  The  incorporators  were 
Daniel  Osborne,  William  Hale,  John  H. 
Wheeler,  Daniel  M.  Christie,  Nathaniel 
Young,  George  Andrews,  William  Hale, 
Jr.,  Moses  Paul,  John  Currier,  Joseph 
Morrill,  Jeremy  Perkins,  and  William 
Woodman.  They  organized  October  1 7, 

1846,  to  commence  business   January   4, 

1847,  the  capital  to  be  $100,000,  which 
was  increased  to  $120,000  by  vote  July  7, 
1857.     The  first  board  of  directors  were 
William   Woodman,    Daniel   M.  Christie, 


This  bank  now  occupies  the  beautiful 
building  erected  by  it  in  connection  with 
Strafford  Savings  Bank  in  1895.  It  stands 
on  the  corner  of  Washington  street  and 
Central  avenue  and  is  one  of  the  city's 
most  notable  architectural  features. 

Woodbury  &  Leighton  of  Boston  were 
the  builders  and  Mr.  A.  T.  Ramsdell  of 
Dover  the  architect.  The  structure  is  of 
Milford  pink  granite,  four  stories  in  height 
and  having  a  frontage  of  115  feet  on 
Washington  street.  The  offices  occupied 
by  the  bank  are  handsomely  furnished 
and  finished  in  quartered  oak  and  mahog- 


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any,  commodious  and  well  lighted.  A 
prettier  bank  office  could  not  be  desired. 
It  is  fitted  up  in  the  most  modern  design, 
and  with  all  conveniences  for  the  dispatch 
of  business.  In  the  rear  of  the  banking- 
room  is  a  large  and  handsomely  furnished 
directors'  and  president's  room  and  a 
small  room  for  the  use  of  depositors  and 
customers.  The  safety  deposit  vaults  are 
large  and  are  marvels  of  strength  and 
safety,  embodying  all  the  latest  devices 
known  to  modern  scientific  safe  building. 
From  the  hour  when  its  doors  were  first 
opened  for  business  to  the  present,  the 


wrecked  less  wisely   directed  institutions. 

The  Strafford  bank  enjoys  unsurpassed 
facilities  for  the  transaction  of  general 
banking  in  all  its  branches — the  care  of 
deposits,  discounts  of  reliable  paper,  the 
issue  of  drafts  and  letters  of  credit  on  all 
American  and  foreign  monetary  centres, 
the  making  and  forwarding  of  collections, 
etc.  Especial  attention  is  given  to  indi- 
vidual, firm  and  corporation  accounts,  and 
to  the  collection  of  dividends  of  all  kinds, 
which  service  is  performed  for  depositors 
free  of  charge. 

The  officers  and  board  of  directors  em- 


INTERIOR  STRAFFORD  SAVINGS  BANK. 


course  of  this  institution  has  been  one  of 
the  most  careful  and  conservative  manage- 
ment, combined  with  a  liberal  policy 
toward  all  responsibly  conducted,  legiti- 
mate enterprises  in  behalf  of  which  its  aid 
has  been  invoked.  Nothing  of  a  doubtful 
or  risky  character  has  ever  received  the 
sanction  of  its  officers  or  directors,  and, 
as  a  consequence,  the  Strafford  Bank, 
both  before  and  since  its  enrollment  among 
the  national  banks,  has  ever  borne  the  de- 
served reputation  of  absolute  reliability — 
a  fortress  of  finance  unaffected  by  the 
storms  which  from  time  to  time  have 


brace  such  well  known  and  responsible 
citizens  as  Elisha  R.  Brown,  President; 
Directors,  Ex-Governor  Charles  H.  Sawyer, 
Colonel  Samuel  C.  Fisher,  Judge  George 
S.  Frost,  James  W.  Bartlett,  Charles  S. 
Cartland,  and  Colonel  Daniel  Hall  •  Cash- 
ier/Charles S.  Cartland. 


The  Strafford  Savings  Bank* 

On  the  ayth  of  June,  1823,  a  charter 
was  granted  for  incorporation  of  the  Sav- 
ings Bank  for  the  County  of  Strafford,  the 
fifth  savings  bank  in  the  United  States, 


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and  January  31,  1824,  a  meeting  of  the 
corporators  was  held  at  the  old  Court 
House,  Tuttle  square,  to  accept  the  char- 
ter. On  February  7th,  John  Wheeler 
was  chosen  President  and  its  Vice-Presi- 
dents  were  John  Williams  and  Stephen 
Hanson,  with  John  W.  Mellen,  Clerk.  Its 
Trustees  were  Jesse  Varney,  James  Bart- 
lett,  Joseph  Smith,  Jacob  Kettredge,  John 
B.  Odiorne,  Wm.  Flagg,  Barnabas  H. 
Palmer,  Wm.  Woodman,  George  Piper, 
Joseph  W.  Clary,  Moses  Paul,  and  Wm. 
Palmer. 

The  bank  was  first  located  in  the  brick 
building  on  Central  avenue  now  owned  by 
Dr.  John  R.  Ham.  At  first  it  was  open 
for  business  on  Friday  afternoon  of  each 
week  from  3  to  6  o'clock.  The  first  de- 
posit was  made  by  Stephen  Hanson  for 
his  son,  Wm.  R.  Hanson,  on  Feb.  28, 
1824. 

In  1846  the  Strafford  Bank  erected  a 
bank  building  on  Washington  street  (its 
present  location)  and  in  1847  the  Savings 
Bank  moved  into  rooms  on  the  same  floor 
of  said  block,  with  separate  vault  facilities. 
The  growth  of  business  during  the  next 
decade  was  such  that  more  room  was 
needed,  and  the  entire  second  story  was 
fitted  up  and  there  the  bank  continued 
until  July,  1895,  when  they  were  tempo- 
rarily located  in  the  Cocheco  Corporation 
next  to  their  counting  rooms,  while  the 
old  bank  building  was  removed  and  the 
new  block  now  known  as  Strafford  Banks 
Building  was  erected  by  this  bank  in  con- 
nection with  Strafford  National  Bank,  and 
in  which  fine,  commodious  quarters  were 
made  for  the  increasing  needs  of  such  an 
institution,  and  occupied  by  it  in  July, 
1896.  Its  corporate  name  was  changed 
by  act  of  Legislature  in  June,  1891,  to 
Strafford  Savings  Bank. 

In  1849,  25  years  after  its  books  were 
open  for  business,  its  deposits  were  $400,- 
461,  with  2500  depositors. 

In  1874,  at  completion  of  its  half  cen- 
tury, the  deposits  were  $2,088,369,  num- 
ber of  depositors  4963. 

In  1898  the  number  of  depositors  is 
970.0,  and  amount  to  credit  of  said  ac- 
counts is  $5,000,000,  with  a  guaranty 
fund  of  $300,000. 

This  remarkable  growth  of  the  Savings 


Bank  had  back  of  it  something  more  than 
the  generally  prosperous  condition  of  the 
section  it  drew  upon,  and  that  important 
something  was  the  confidence  in  its 
methods  and  condition  that  had  been  es- 
tablished by  its  years  of  careful  and  con- 
servative management.  Its  officers  have, 
from  the  beginning,  been  men  of  this 
class.  Its  trustees  and  boards  of  invest- 
ment, its  presidents  and  treasurers  have 
been  persons  who  earned  and  commanded 
public  confidence.  From  its  inception 
until  now  it  is  truthfully  claimed  for  the 
Strafford  Savings  Bank  that  there  is  no 
provision  the  state  has  made  for  the  safety 
and  advantage  of  savings  bank  depositors 
that  this  bank  has  not  willingly,  zealously 
and  to  the  utmost  of  its  ability  applied 
and  carried  out.  And  it  has  had  its  re- 
ward in  the  ever  increasing  volume  of  its 
deposits  which  now  reach  the  sum  of 
$5,000,000. 

The  present  officers  of  the  bank  are 
Elisha  R.  Brown,  President ;  Ex-Governor 
Charles  H.  Sawyer,  First  Vice  President ; 
Colonel  Samuel  C.  Fisher,  Second  Vice 
President ;  Trustees,  Elisha  R.  Brown,  Ex- 
Governor  Charles  H.  Sawyer,  Colonel 
Samuel  C.  Fisher,  John  Holland,  John  H. 
Hurd,  Hon.  B.  Frank  Nealley,  Colonel 
Daniel  Hall,  and  A.  G.  Whittemore,  Esq. ; 
Executive  Officer,  Elisha  R.  Brown ;  Treas- 
urer and  Secretary,  Albert  O.  Mathes. 


The  First   (Congregational)    Church. 

This  is  the  fifth  and  present  house  of 
worship  of  the  First  Church  in  Dover. 
Two  hundred  and  sixty-five  years  ago,  in 
October,  1633,  Rev.  William  Leverieh,  a 
graduate  of  Emmanuel  College,  Cam- 
bridge, England,  began  preaching  in  the 
settlement  at  Hilton's  Point  on  Dover 
Neck,  and  the  First  Parish  may  be  said 
to  date  from  that  event.  During  his 
ministry  of  about  two  years,  the  first 
meeting-house  was  erected.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1638,  Rev.  Hanserd  Knollys,  the 
third  minister  of  the  First  Parish,  organ- 
ized the  First  Church.  A  generation 
later,  the  second  meeting-house  was 
erected  on  the  well  known  site  where  are 
to  be  seen  at  the  present  time  remnants 
of  the  ancient  fortification.  During  more 


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than  half  a  century  the  church  worshipped 
in  that  fortified  meeting-house ;  then, 
moving  still  further  north,  made  its  third 
home,  during  almost  another  half  century, 
on  Pine  Hill.  The  fourth  house  of  wor- 
ship stood  upon  the  site  of  the  present 
one,  and  opened  its  doors  to  the  congre- 
gation in  1758.  The  present  meeting- 
house was  dedicated  December  31,  1829, 
and  a  half  century  later,  after  undergoing 
a  radical  reconstruction  at  an  expense  of 
about  twenty-three  thousand  dollars,  was 
rededicated  on  Thanksgiving  evening, 
Novem  ber 
28,  1878.  A 
large  and 
conve  n  i  e  n  t 
chapel,  con- 
necting with 
the  church  in 
the  rear,  and 
costing  over 
thirteen 
thousand  dol- 
lars, was  dedi- 
cated in  April 
1889.  This 
an  c  i  e  n  t 
church,  the 
oldest  in  New 
Hampsh  ire, 
stands  for 
spiritual  life, 
and  liberty, 
and  progress, 
for  all  that  is 
true  and 
good.  In  pa- 
triotic devo- 
tion its  influ- 
e  n  c  e  has 
been  marked 
since  the  days  when  Jeremy  Belknap  did 
so  much  to  inspire  and  guide  the  Revolu- 
tion. In  missionary  zeal  and  work  this 
church  takes  a  leading  position.  One  of 
its  honored  pastors  said  on  the  occasion 
of  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  First  Parish,  "  The  church  so 
feebly  born  has  strengthened  its  stakes 
and  enlarged  its  borders,  untouched  by 
time,  asserting  itself  with  an  ever-clearer 
utterance  in  the  community  and  state, 
more  vigorous  and  strong  in  every  last 


stage  of  its  growth,  and,  like  the  tree 
planted  by  the  ever- running  waters, 
'  bringing  forth  fruit  in  old  age.'  But 
its  prolific  life  has  not  been  kept  within 
itself.  This  church  has  been  rightly  called 
a  'mother church.'  She  has  established 
from  her  membership  nearly  every  Con- 
gregational church  in  this  vicinity,  and 
strengthened  from  it  almost  every  Con- 
gregational church  in  the  state.  And 
more  than  this,  she  has  sent  forth  from 
her  inexhaustible  loins  children  who  have 
built  up,  even  in  her  very  presence, 
churches  o  f 
other  or  •? 


THE  FIRST  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 


REV.  GEORGE 

E.  HALL, 

D.  D. 

George 
Edward  Hall, 
D.  D.,  pastor 
of  the  First 
church  in 
Dover,  was 
born  in  Ja- 
maica, West 
Indies,  Feb- 
ruary 23, 
1851,  son  of 
the  Reverend 
H  e  m  a  n  B. 
and  Sophro- 
nia  (Brooks) 
Hall.  In  the 
paternal  line 
he  traces  his 
descent  from 
John  Hall  of 
M  edf or d, 
Massachusetts,  who  was  born  in  England 
in  1627.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the 
preparatory  school  in  Oberlin,  Ohio,  and 
graduated  from  Oberlin  College  in  1872, 
beginning  the  study  of  theology  in  Yale 
Divinity  school  in  that  year,  and  graduat- 
ing in  1875.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  church  in  Littleton, 
Massachusetts,  September  2,  1875,  resign- 
ing that  pastorate  March  i,  1877,  to  ac- 
cept a  call  to  the  Congregational  church 
in  Vergennes,  Vermont,  where  he  was  in- 


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stalled  May  2,  1877.  His  pastorate  in 
Vergennes  was  highly  successful,  but  he 
resigned  in  October,  1883,  to  accept  a 
call  to  Dover,  and  was  installed  over  the 
First  church  on  January  2,  1884.  Dr.  Hall 
is  the  twenty-third  on  the  roll  of  pastors 
of  this  historical  church.  His  pastorate  of 
more  than  fourteen  years,  continuing  with 
unabated  strength,  has  been  very  success- 
ful and  happy.  In  January  of  1895,  the 
church  voted  Dr.  Hall  six  months'  vaca- 
tion to  visit 
Egypt  and 
the  Holy 
Land,  and  a 
further  man- 
ifestation of 
regard  was  a 
testimo  n  i  a  1 
by  voluntary 
gifts  of  eight 
hundred  dol- 
lars, present- 
ed to  him  on 
the  eve  of  his 
depar  t  u  r  e . 
Mr.  Hall  has 
been  fi  v  e 
times  a  mem- 
ber of  the 
National 
Council  (Tri- 
e  n  n  i  a  1)  of 
Cong  r  e  g  a  - 
tionalchurch- 
es.  He  is  a 
Trustee  and 
one  of  the 
Exe  c  u  t  i  v  e 
Commi  ft  e  e 
of  the  New 
Hamps  hire 
Home  Mis- 
sionary Soci- 
ety. He  is  a  corporate  member  of  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions.  He  received  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1893.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  School  Committee  of  Dover.  He 
has  been  for  five  years  chaplain  of  the 
First  Regiment  New  Hampshire  National 
Guard.  He  holds  membership  in  the 
Winthrop  club  of  Boston  and  the  Monday 


club  of  Boston.  Mr.  Hall  was  married 
June  20,  1877,  to  Alice  Monroe,  daughter 
of  the  late  James  Monroe  Peabody  of 
Lowell^  Massachusetts.  Mrs.  Hall  died 
April  6,  1883,  leaving  two  children,  Alice 
Miriam  and  Henry  Monroe.  Mr.  Hall 
married  April  16,  1890,  Elizabeth  Knee- 
land,  daughter  of  the  late  William  McFar- 
land  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  whose  father 
was  the  Rev.  Asa  McFarland,  D.  D.,  of 
Concord.  They  have  two  children,  John 
McFarland 
and  George 
William  Hall. 

St.  John's 
Methodist 
Episcopal 
Church. 


REV.  GEORGE  E.  HALL,  D.  D. 


From  the 
establishment 
of  the  "  First 
Church "  in 
1 638  no  other 
church  exist- 
ed in  Dover 
though  there 
was  "  Soci- 
e  t  y  "  of 
Friends,  till 
the  introduc- 
tion of  Meth- 
od  ism  .  In 
1819,  the  first 
Methodist 
meetings  for 
worship  were 
held  at  a  small 
village  which 
then  existed 
some  two 
miles  up  the 
river  from  the 

present  city  proper,  called  the  Upper 
Factory,  where  was  located  a  small 
manufacturing  establishment.  Rev.  John 
Lord,  afterward  a  prominent  minister  in 
Maine,  then  traveling  on  the  Rochester 
Circuit,  visited  this  village  in  1819  and 
preached  to  the  people  and  organized  a 
"class"  and  a  Sunday  school.  The  late 
venerable  Solomon  Gray  and  the  late 
George  W.  Wendell  of  Somersworth,  then 


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resided  at  the 'Upper  Factory  and  were 
pioneers  of  Methodism  in  Dover. 

From  this  begin- 
ning in  1819  to  1823 
when  Dover  was  made 
a  separate  charge  the 
records  are  very  mea- 
gre. The  first  preach- 
ing at  the  village  was 
in  the  old  Court 
House.  Rev.  Jotham 
Horton  was  the  first 
regularly  stationed 
preacher  at  Dover. 

As  the  work  grew, 
it  became  evident  that 
better      accommoda- 
tions   were     needed, 
and     measures    were 
taken   in   1824, — Mr. 
Morton's  second  year, 
— for  the  erection  of 
a  house  of  worship.  A 
lot  of   land   (that  on 
which   the  present 
house     stands) ,    was 
procured  of  the 
heirs  of  the  cel- 
ebrated  Major 
Richard     Wal- 
dron,    whose 
grave  is  in  the 
immediate    yi- 
cijnji_ty.     The 
committee  ap- 
pointed to  con- 
duct the  build- 
ing   enterprise 
were  among 
the    most  sub- 
sta  n  t  i  a  1  citi- 
z  e  ns  .  They 
were    Dr.  Jos- 
eph   Smith, 
Robert  Rogers, 
George    Piper, 
William    Pal- 
mer, Jeremy, H. 
Titcomb,  Lewis 
B.  Tibbetts,and 
Rev.    Jotham 
Horton,     the 
pastor.      The 
first   Board   of 
Trustees    were 
Joseph    Smith, 


REV.  DR.  BABCOCK. 


ST.~JOHN'S  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 


Lewis  B.  Tibbetts,  Barnabus  H.  Palmer, 
Richard  Walker,  George  Piper,  Geo.  W. 
Edgerly,  and  Theodore 
Littlefield.     No  one  of 
these    is     now    living. 
This  church  answered 
its    purpose    very  well 
till  when  in  1828  an  ad- 
dition was  built  on  the 
rear  end,  of  sixteen  and 
one-half   feet.        This 
church  has  always  been 
a   vigorous   body,  and 
has    been    served    by 
some  of  the  ablest  min- 
isters of  the  denomina- 
tion.       The     present 
church  edifice  was  erec- 
ted on  the  site  of  the 
original    one,  in  1875. 
It  cost  without  the  lot 
about  $40,000.     That 
includes  the  organ  and 
the  chime  of  nine  bells. 
Its  seating  capacity  is 
about   one    thousand. 
From  the    be- 
ginning   this 
church  has  al- 
ways   main- 
tained  a  vigor- 
ous Sunday 
school.      The 
present  pastor 
is  Rev.  D.  C. 
Babcock,D.D. 

REV.  D.  C. 
BABCOCK,D.D. 

Rev.  Dan- 
iel Clark  Bab- 
cock,  D.  D., 
was  born  in 
Bla  n  d  f  o  r  d , 
Mass.,  May 
3ist,  1835. 
His  fat  her, 
Russell  Bab- 
cock,  and  his 
mother,  Susan 
A.  (Clark) 
were  natives  of 
So.  Kingston, 
R.  I.  He  was 
the  second  of 
four  sons,  but 


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is  now  the  only  member  of  the  family  liv- 
ing. His  mother  died  when  he  was  nine 
years  of  age  and  his  father  before  he  was 
twenty.  The  youngest  brother  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  oldest  was  lest  at  sea  when  a 
young  man,  and  the  other  died  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  in  1887. 

Mr.  B.  took  his  academic  training  in  the 
East  Douglas,  Mass.,  High  School,  at  the 
Providence  Conference  Seminary,  East 
Greenwich,  R.  I.,  and  at  the  Vermont 
Conference  Seminary,  then  at  Newbury, 
now  at  Montpelier.  He  graduated  from 
the  school  of 
theo  logy  of 
the  Boston 
Unive  r  s  i  t  y  , 
then  at  Con- 
cord, N.  H., 
in  June,i864. 
The  Honor- 
ary Degree — 
Doctor  of  Di- 
vinity, was 
conferred  by 
the  American 
Tempera  nee 
University  in 
1896. 

Mr.  B  . 
joined  the 
New  Hamp- 
shire Confer- 
ence of  the 
Me  t  h  o  d  i  s  t 
Epi  s  co pa  1 
church  in 
April,  1 86 1, 
having  served 
four  years  pri- 
or to  that  as 
a  "Local 
Preacher."  He  served  as  pastor  in  the 
following  order,  at  Bow,  Fisherville,  now 
Penacook,  Salem  Depot,  High  Street, 
Great  Falls,  now  Somersworth,  Claremont, 
St.  Paul's,  Manchester,  and  Chestnut  St., 
Nashua.  While  at  Nashua  he  was  G.  C. 
T.  of  the  Good  Templars  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

As  the  result  of  over  work  he  found 
rest  a  necessity,  and  took  a  nominal  ap- 
pointment after  one  year  at  Nashua, 
spending  much  of  the  year  in  traveling. 


PIERCE   MEMORIAL  CHURCH   (UNIVERSALIST). 


During  that  year  he  was  elected  Corre- 
sponding Secretary  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Temperance  Union,  and  entered  that 
field  in  March,  1872,  with  headquarters 
in  Philadelphia.  He  served  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  May,  1888.  During  the  last 
eight  years  of  that  period  he  was  also 
District  Secretary  of  the  National  Tem- 
perance Society  and  Publication  House. 
Mr.  B.  returned  to  pastoral  work  in  the 
spring  of  1888,  and  has  served  at  Clare- 
mont, Lancaster  and  Whitefield.  In  April, 
1896,  he  consented  to  give  a  year  to  the 
field  work  of 
the  Law  and 
Order  League 
of  New  Hamp- 
shire, of  which 
he  is  Sec-Treas. 
He  was  ap- 
pointed pastor 
of  St.  John's 
church,  Dover, 
in  April,  1897, 
by  Bishop  W. 
X.  Ninde,  and 
for  a  second 
year  in  April, 
1898,  by  Bish- 
op W.  F.  Mal- 
lalieu. 

He  united  in 
marriage  with 
Miss  Clara  A. 
Parkman  of 
Sutton,  Mass., 
in  April,  1860. 
They  have  two 
daughters,  Miss 
Susie  Parkman, 
who  is  with 
them,  and  Mrs. 
Mary  A.,  wife  of  Rev.  J.  Roy  Dinsmore, 
pastor  at  North  Haverhill,  N.  H. 


Peirce  Memorial  Church. 

(UNIVERSALIST). 

The  Universalist  Church,  known  as  the 
Peirce  Memorial,  on  Central  avenue,  was 
organized  in  1837. 

There  was  preaching  of  Universalism' in 
Dover  some  years  previous  to  that  date. 
At  first  the  society  worshipped  in  a  hall. 


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About  1838  a  church  edifice  was  built  by 
the  society  on  Third  street.  The  build- 
ing was  enlarged  in  1847. 

This  was  the  place  of  worship  until 
about  1880  when  the  church  was  sold 
for  business  purposes.  In  1883  the 
present  substantial  and  beautiful  brick 
edifice  was  dedicated.  The  building, 
costing  $30,000,  was  the  gift  of  Thomas 
W.  Peirce  in  memory  of  his  parents. 

Since  the  present  society  was  reorgan- 
ized in  1883,  these  pastors  have  been  set- 
tled. Rev.  S.  H.  McCollester,  D.  D., 
Rev.  Walter  Scott  Vail,  Rev.  Fred  W. 
Dillingham,  Rev.  Royal  T.  Sawyer,  and 
Rev.  Ezra  Almon  Hoyt 
the  present  pastor, 
who  began  his  work  in 
this  city  in  1891. 

REV.  E.  A.  HOYT. 

Rev.  Ezra  Almon 
Hoyt,  pastor  of  Peirce 
Memorial  Church,  was 
born  in  Hanover, 
Maine,  October  31, 
1855.  His  boyhood 
and  youth  were  spent 
on  a  farm.  His  early 
education  was  in  the 
district  school.  When 
eighteen  years  old  he 
went  to  the  village 
school  for  the  first 
time.  From  that  time 
his  real  education  dat- 
ed. Teaching  school 
in  winter  he  earned 
money  to  attend  He- 
bron Academy  and 
Westbrook  Seminary,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1878.  In  the  fall  of  that  year 
he  entered  Tufts  College,  graduating  with 
class  of  '82.  He  was  ordained  to  the 
ministry  at  Thompsonville,  Conn.  His 
pastorates  since  ordination  have  been  in 
Skowhegan,  Maine,  St.  Johnsbury,  Ver- 
mont, and  his  present  pastorate  in  Dover, 
which  began  in  1891. 


REV.  E.  A.  HOYT. 


St.  Mary's  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

Mass  was  first  said   in    Dover    in    the 
winter  of  1826  by  Rev.  Virgil  H.  Barber, 


S.  J.  Among  the  prominent  pioneer 
Catholics  in  Dover  were  William  Ashcroft, 
John  Burns,  Francis  G.  O'Neill,  Philip  F. 
Scanlan,  and  Wm.  McDevitt. 

Services  were  first  held  in  the  Court 
House.  May  17,  1828,  the  corner  stone 
of  the  first  Catholic  church  was  laid  and 
was  completed  and  accepted  in  June, 
1829.  It  cost  $2800.  The  church  was 
consecrated  September  26,  1830,  by  Rt. 
Rev.  Dr.  Dominick  Fenwick  of  Boston. 
The  rapid  growth  of  the  church  demand- 
ed a  more  commodious  edifice  and  in 
1872  the  present  building  was  completed. 
The  first  regular  pastor  of  the  church 
was  Rev.  Father 
French,  in  1827,  who 
remained  two  years 
after  the  erection  of 
the  first  church  edifice, 
and  was  succeeded  by 
Rev.  Father  Lee,  M. 
D.,  D.  D.  He  re- 
mained three  years  and 
was  followed  by  Rev. 
Father  McNamee,  M. 
D.,  D.  D.  He  offici- 
ated until  1839  and 
was  succeeded  by  Rev. 
Father  Conovan,  who 
stayed  until  1855. 
Father  McShanecame 
next,  succeeded  by 
Father  Brady.  Next 
came  Father  Niccolo, 
who  was  followed  by 
Father  Drummond, 
assisted  by  the  Rev. 
Father  Blodgett,  a  con- 
vert, who  was  given  full 
charge  of  the  parish  before  he  had  been 
here  a  year,  on  account  of  the  feebleness 
of  Father  Drummond. 

Father  Blodgett  was  one  of  the  most 
able  and  enterprising  priests  that  ever 
presided  over  this  parish.  It  was  through 
him  that  the  New  Hampshire  House  prop- 
erty and  the  new  Catholic  cemetery  were 
secured,  and  had  he  lived,  he  would  have 
erected  upon  this  property  one  of  the 
finest  churches  in  the  State.  Father 
Blodgett  died  May  15,  1881,  and  was  the 
first  priest  to  be  buried  in  Dover.  Rev. 
Father  Murphy  succeeded  and  was  soon 


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given    the  entire  charge    of    the  parish. 
REV.  DANIEL  W.  MURPHY. 

Father  Murphy  assumed  the  charge  of 
St.  Mary's  parish  in  1881.  He  was  born 
in  Liscarroll,  Ireland,  Nov.  24,  1838, 
studied  at  the  classical  school  of  Charle- 
ville  and  at  the  college  of  Middleton,  and 
took  his  philosophical  and  part  of  his  the- 
ological courses  at  All  Hallows,  finishing 
his  studies  for  the  priesthood  in  the  Grand 
Seminary  of  Montreal.  He  was  ordained 
in  Portland,  Aug.  21,  1861,  by  Bishop 
Bacon.  After 
serving  a  short 
time  as  assist- 
ant at  the  Port- 
land cathedral, 
he  was  made 
pastor  of  Houl- 
ton,  Maine,  at 
the  end  of  1861 
coming  to  take 
tempora  ry 
charge  of  Dover 
in  1 86 2,  and  re- 
turning  to 
Houlton  after  a 
few  months, 
where  he  organ- 
ized a  school. 
While  in  that 
charge,  he  at- 
tended Bene- 
dicta.  He  be- 
came pastor  of 
Bath,  Maine,  in 
1864,  and  while 
there  built  a 
new  rec  t  o  r  y  , 
and  established 
a  school.  In 
October,  1865, 
Portsmouth. 


ST.  MARY'S  CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 


he  was  transferred  to 
He  went  to  Keene  in  1869, 
to  which  parish  twenty-one  out-missions 
were  then  attached.  He  built  a  rectory 
and  remodeled  the  church  in  Keene,  built 
churches  at  Peterboro  and  Ashuelot, 
bought  the  Episcopal  church  in  Walpole, 
and  instituted  church-building  funds  in 
Claremont  and  Charlestown.  In  1877,  he 
was  appointed  pastor  of  Augusta,  Maine, 
and  while  there  enlarged  the  Augusta 
church  and  built  a  church  in  Hallowell. 


From  Augusta  he  removed  to  Dover. 
In  the  September  of  his  first  year  here 
Father  Murphy  began  erecting,  on  the  lot 
purchased  by  Father  Blodgett,  the  Sacred 
Heart  School  (for  girls),  opening  it  in 
1883,  under  a  community  of  the  Sisters 
of  Mercy  from  Manchester,  and  remodel- 
ing for  convent  uses  the  large  building 
which  stood  on  the  property ;  and,  during 
the  latter  year,  he  also  virtually  rebuilt  the 
rectory,  adding  the  present  front,  deepen- 
ing the  building  by  thirty- five  feet,  and 
putting  on  a  Mansard  roof,  the  expense 
of  the  improve- 
ment  being 
$6,000.  In  1884 
he  frescoed  the 
church,  furnished 
it  with  new  gas 
fi  x  t  u  r  e  s  and 
steam  heating 
apparatus,  and 
erected  three  new 
altars.  Three 
years  later,  he 
purchased  an  es- 
tate on  Court 
street,  convert- 
ing the  house 
which  stood 
thereon  into  an 
orphanage ;  i  n 
1888,  he  built 
St.  J  o  s  e  p  h'  s 
School  (for  boys) 
on  Centralavenue 
putting  it  at  first 
in  charge  of  the 
Sisters  of  Mercy ; 
during  the-  fol- 
lowing year  he 
secured  as  teach- 
ers of  the  boys  a  band  of  Christian  Broth- 
ers ;  and  in  1890  he  erected  a  fine  resi- 
dence for  the  Brothers,  and  put  stained- 
glass  windows  into  the  church.  In  1891, 
he  built  the  church  tower,  hanging  there- 
in a  fine  bell.  In  1892,  the  county  au- 
thorities entrusted  to  Father  Murphy's 
care  all  the  little  Catholic  girls  of  the 
county  farm  ;  and  he  was  obliged,  conse- 
quently, to  enlarge  the  orphanage,  this 
enterprise  costing  $5,000.  Later,  two 
houses,  on  the  same  square  with  the 


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Sacred  Heart  School,  were  bequeathed  to 
the  parish  for  the  benefit  of  the  orphan- 
age. Father  Murphy  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Bishop's  council  since  the  organi- 
zation of  the  diocese  ;  and  he  is  also  a  per- 
manent rector. 

St.  Mary's  parish,  with  its  splendid  de- 
velopment, has  no  debt ;  and,  in  point  of 
organization,  it  is  one  of  the  best  parishes 
in  New  England. 

PAROCHIAL  SCHOOLS. 

St.  Joseph's  School,  under  the  instruc- 
tion of  four  Christian  Brothers  (Brother 
Jerome,  supe- 
rior), has  230 
boys  on  its 
rolls,  besides 
accommodat- 
ing the  young- 
er girls  who 
1  ive  in  the 
northwestern 
part  of  the  city 
and  who  are 
taught  by  two 
Sisters  of  Mer- 
cy. The  school 
and  the 
Brothers  ' 
house  are  on 
a  splendid  lot, 
the  former 
building  being 
well  arranged, 
containing  six 
class-roo  m  s , 
and  showing  a 
brick  base- 
ment  and  an 
open  cupola. 

The  Sacred  Heart  School  is  located  on 
Church  street.  Its  lowest  story  is  of 
brick,  the  other  two  being  of  wood.  Its 
exterior  is  tastefully  ornamented,  the  ba- 
rocco  work  under  the  eaves  being  espec- 
ially praiseworthy.  It  contains  eleven 
rooms  and  a  recitation  hallway,  every 
class  having  its  own  cloak-room.  A  pa- 
rochial library  is  in  this  building.  The 
school  is  heated  by  steam,  is  furnished 
with  hot  and  cold  air  ventilators,  and  is 
well  lighted.  Fifteen  Sisters  of  Mercy 
(Mother  Fidelis,  superior)  from  the  Man- 


REV.  FATHER  MURPHY. 


Chester  mother-house,  teach  415  girls, 
instructing  also,  up  to  the  fourth  grade, 
the  boys  who  live  in  the  southern  section 
of  the  city.  In  the  grammar  grades  his- 
tory is  treated  topically,  and  diagram 
work  is  used  in  language  analysis.  A 
special  course  is  given  in  vocal  music. 
The  high  school  curriculum,  extending 
through  three  years,  includes  algebra, 
stenography,  typewriting,  literature, 
French,  Church  history,  physics,  civil  gov- 
ernment, and  bookkeeping  (single  and 
double  entry).  Both  schools  are  of  the 
very  first  order. 

SACRED  HEART 
CONVENT. 

The  Sacred 
Heart  Convent 
fronting  on 
Central  avenue, 
is  bright  and 
c  o  m  m  o  dious, 
every  Sister 
having  her  own 
room ;  and  it 
has  a  pretty 
chapel,  fur- 
nished with 
stain  e  d-g  lass 
windows,  a 
tasteful  altar, 
and  chaste 
frescoing. 

.  The  orphan- 
age for  girls  is 
cared  for  by 
three  Sisters  of 
Mercy,  and  can 
be  made  to  ac- 
commodate a 
hundred  children.  It  is  heated  by  steam, 
and  is  noticeable  by  reason  of  the  neat- 
ness and  sweetness  of  its  dormitories. 
The  orphans  attend  the  Sisters'  school. 


The  Central  Avenue  Baptist  Church. 

The  church  now  known  as  the  Central 
Avenue  Baptist  church,  was  constituted 
with  thirteen  members  and  recognized  in 
the  usual  manner  by  a  council  on  the 
twenty-third  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of 
our  :Lord,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 


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and  twenty-eight.  It  was  composed  of 
persons  who  had  been  accustomed  to 
worship  with  churches  of  the  Baptist 
faith,  but  not  finding  those  of  their  own 
belief  and  order  in  Dover,  they  took 
measures  for  the  organization  of  a  regular 
Baptist  church.  Of  the  thirteen  persons 
who  were  active  in  this  movement,  seven 
were  men  and  six  were  women.  In  March, 
1828,  Rev.  Duncan  Dunbar  of  New  York 
was  invited  to  preach  to  this  body  of 
Baptist  friends,  and  as  the  result  of  a 
few  Sundays'  labor,  three  were  baptized 
upon  the  pro- 
f  e  s  s  i  o  n  of 
their  faith. 
The  fi  r s  t 
meetings  o  f 
these  breth- 
ren were  held 
in  the  hall  of 
a  building 
which  was  at- 
tached to  the 
block  which 
now  stands  on 
Second  street, 
familiarly 
known  as  the 
"  Old  Board- 
ing House," 
and  which 
once  stood  on 
the  spot  now 
occupied  by 
the  brick 
block  known 
as  the  Morrill 
Block.  The 
first  pastor, 
Rev.  Elijah 
Foster,  w  a  s 

settled  in  October,  1829,  and  on  the  same 
day  the  present  church  edifice  was  dedi- 
cated to  the  worship  of  Almighty  God,  it 
having  been  erected  largely  by  the  ardu- 
ous and  persistent  labors  of  the  pastor 
with  the  cheerful  co-operation  of  all  the 
members  of  the  church.  It  is  worthy  of 
remark,  as  indicating  the  labors  of  the 
pastor  of  that  day,  that  on  the  first  Sun- 
day after  the  dedication  of  the  church,  he 
preached  three  sermons,  baptized  and 
gave  the  hand  of  fellowship  to  one  new 


CENTRAL    AVENUE  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 


convert,  administered  the  Lord's  Supper 
and  joined  a  couple  in  the  bands  of  wed- 
lock. Mr.  Foster  continued  as  pastor 
of  the  church  till  1831,  long  enough  to 
see  it  quite  firmly  established  and  increas- 
ing in  numbers  and  spiritual  strength 
through  the  faithful  and  earnest  labors  he 
made  for  it  in  its  early  days  of  weakness. 
From  the  year  of  its  formation,  now  sev- 
enty years  ago,  to  this  present  day,  the 
church  has  maintained,  through  seasons 
of  great  trial  as  well  as  through  seasons 
of  great  prosperity,  a  succession  of  godly 
ministers  who 
have  contrib- 
uted their 
share  to  the 
advancemen  t 
of  this  city  in 
all  good 
words  and 
works,  and  as 
it  looks  back 
and  reviews 
the  past  it  can 
well  thank 
God  and  take 
courage.  ^.^ 
During 
the  seventy 
years  of  the 
church's  life, 
it  has  r  e  - 
ceivedinto  its 
fel  1  o  w  s  h  i  p 
nine  hundred 
and  twenty- 
two  members. 
Its  present 
membersh  i  p 
is  two  hun- 
dred and  for- 
ty-four, and  its  pastor  is  the  Rev.  W.  H. 
S.  Hascall,  4  Ham  street. 

REV.  W.  H.  S.  HASCALL. 

W.  H.  S.  Hascall  is  a  native  of  Rutland 
County,  Vermont,  but  while  he  was  still  a 
lad  his  father  moved  to  Durham,  Me., 
where  he  resides,  though  the  boy  spent 
much  of  his  time  in  the  city  of  Portland  at 
the  home  of  an  uncle  whose  namesake  he 
was.  In  addition  to  his  other  studies,  he 
learned  the  printer's  trade,  and  was  called 


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by  the  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union 
to  assist  in  their  large  Publishing  House 
in  Rangoon,  Burma.  He  was  soon  trans- 
ferred to  the  charge  of  the  important  sta- 
tion of  Maulmain  where  the  oversight  of 
eighteen  native  churches,  the  direction  of 
the  evangelists  and  the  supervision  of 
several  large  schools,  besides  city  and 
jungle  preaching,  devolved  upon  him. 
After  eight  years  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  for  a  period  of  rest,  for  a 
time  serving  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
church  in  Farmington,  Me. 

He  returned  with  his  family  to  Burma 
in  1883  and  took  charge  of  the  Henzada 
mission  until  the  Brit- 
ish occupation  of  Up- 
per Burma,  when  he 
was  asked  to  found  a 
new  station  in  that 
dangerous  locality. 
Land  was  purchased, 
mission  buildings  erect- 
ed and  a  small  church 
gathered,  when  he  was 
obliged  on  account  of 
the  severe  illness  of  his 
entire  family  to  relin- 
quish his  work  and  re- 
turn to  America.  After 
spending  a  year  in  rest- 
ing and  giving  mission- 
ary addresses  in  various 
parts  of  the  country 
he  accepted  a  call  to 
Fall  River,  Mass., 
where  he  remained  six 
and  one  half  years ; 
from  thence  coming 
to  Dover  in  October, 
1896. 


REV.  W.  H.  S.   HASCALL 


St.  Thomas'   Episcopal  Church. 

The  first  services  in  Dover  in  accord- 
ance with  the  doctrine  and  ritual  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church  of  America 
were  held  by  Rev.  Henry  Blackaller  of 
St.  Paul's  church,  Great  Falls  in  Feb., 
1832.  The  permanent  establishment  of 
this  church  in  Dover  is  not  due  entirely 
to  or  chiefly,  however,  to  the  efforts  of 
Mr.  Blackaller,  but  rather  to  the  Rev. 
Thomas  R.  Lambert,  D.  D.,  who  in  1839 


began  the  regular  services  of  the  church 
in  what  was  then  Belknap  school,  a 
wooden  building  then  situated  on  Church 
street.  On  Sept.  2,  1839,  gentlemen  in- 
terested in  the  formation  of  a  church  met 
in  this  schoolhouse  and  entered  into  an 
association  for  this  purpose.  On  Dec.  i, 
1839,  Rev.  William  Horton,  before  rector 
of  Trinity  church,  Saco,  became  rector  of 
St.  Thomas'  church.  In  1840  a  lot  of 
land  was  bought  on  what  is  now  the  corner 
of  Central  avenue  and  St.  Thomas  st.  A 
church  building  was  erected  and  finished 
January,  1841,  at  the  cost  of  $5800.  The 
first  service  was  held  in  the  new  church 
January  17,  1841. 
The  church  was  con- 
secrated by  Bishop 
Griswold,  March  17, 
1841.  InAug.,  1841, 
the  parish  consisted  of 
sixty  families  and  forty 
communicants.  Rev. 
Mr.  Horton  resigned 
his  rectorship  Nov.  10, 
1847.  The  Rev. 
Thomas  G.  Salter  be- 
came rector  Dec.  12, 
1847.  In  1860  gas 
was  put  into  the 
church  and  the  church 
bell  was  hung.  On 
July  i,  1 86 1,  Mr.  Sal- 
ter resigned  his  rector- 
ship and  Sept.  i,  1 86 1, 
Rev.  Edward  M. 
Gushee  became  the 
rector.  During  our 
late  civil  war  Mr. 
Gushee  was  chaplain 
of  the  Ninth  New  Hampshire  Regiment, 
and  in  his  absence  Rev.  Charles  Wingate 
officiated  as  rector.  Mr.  Gushee  resigned 
in  April,  1864.  On  Dec.  i,  1864,  the 
Rev.  John  W.  Clark  became  the  rector, 
but  resigned  Sept.  16,  1866.  The  follow- 
ing February,  Rev.  George  G.  Field  was 
chosen  rector.  Mr.  Field  resigned  Aug. 
1 6,  1868.  Rev.  John  B.  Richmond  be- 
came rector  Nov.  8,  1868.  During  the 
rectorship  of  Mr.  Richmond  the  church 
building  was  altered  inside  and  out,  and 
its  seating  capacity  increased.  Mr.  Rich- 
mond resigned  April  29,  1876,  and  the 


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present  incumbent,  the  Rev 
Beard  was  chosen  rec- 
tor and  entered  upon 
his     duties     Nov.    5, 
1876. 

REV.  ITHAMAR  W. 
BEARD. 

Ithamar    Warren 
Beard     was    born    in 
Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  Feb. 
23,    1840.     He  fitted 
for  college  at  the  Low- 
ell public  schools,  the 
Brimmer      school     in 
Boston,  the  Lawrence 
academy    in    Grjoton, 
Mass.,   and  the  Cam- 
bridge    High     school 
from    which    he    was 
graduated     in     1858. 
He    entered   Harvard 
college  the  same  year 
and  was  graduated  in 
the    class     of     1862. 
During   the    civil    war 
he  was  lieutenant 
in  the  igth  Mass. 
Reg.,      but     was 
obliged  to  resign 
his  position  on  ac- 
count    of   his 
father's  failing 
health.     He  stud- 
ied law  in  the  of- 
fice of  D.  S.    and 
G.  F.  Richardson, 
Lowell,  Mass.,  and 
was    admitted    to 
the  bar  of  Middle- 
sex   county,  Oct. 
17,  1864.   He  was 
Secretary    of    the 
State  Mutual  Fire 
Insurance     Com- 
pany,   Boston,  in 
1865.      He  prac- 
ticed law  in  Low- 
ell in  1866.      He 
was    Register    of 
Deeds  in    Lowell 
in   1867  and  was 
reelectedin  1870.  t 

Dec.     ist,    1869, 
he    married    Marcy    Foster 


Ithamar  W. 


REV.  ITHAMAR  W.  BEARD 


He   was   baptized    by   the    Rev.    Theo- 
dore Edson,  D.  D.,  of 
Lowell,    March    25th, 
1866.     He  was    con- 
firmed by  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Manton  Easttrom,  D. 
D.,  April  5th,  1 866.  He 
was   President  of  the 
Loweliy.M.C.A.'the 
first  two   years   of  its 
existence.       He     was 
graduated  B.  E.  from 
the  Cambridge  Theo- 
logical    school     June 
1 8th,  1873.  He  was  or- 
dained Deacon  by  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Vealy, 
D.D.,  June  isth,  1873. 
He  was  ordained  Priest 
by  the  Rt.  Rev.  B.  H. 
Paddock,  D.D.,  June 
21,  1874.  He  was  rec- 
tor of  St.  James  church, 
South  Groveland, 
Mass.,  from  July  28th, 
1873,    to    Nov.     ist, 
1876.      He   was 
r  e  c  t  o  r  of  St. 
Thomas'    church 
from    Nov.     i  st, 
1876,  to  the  pres- 
ent date  and  he 
is  still  the  rector. 
He    has   been  a 
member    of   the 
Dover   School 
Board,    is    chap- 
lain of  Moses 
Paul  Lodge,  Sen- 
ior Pastor  of  the 
city,      presiding 
o  ffi  c  e  r    of    the 
Ministers'    Asso- 
ciation,   a    dele- 
gate to  the  gen- 
eral    convention 
of  his  own  church 
and  he  has  been 
chaplain    of   the 
County  Farm  for 
ten     years     and 
more. 

The  old  church 
occupied  the 
northeast  corner  of  the  present  site  of  the 


THOMAS'   EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 


of    Nashua. 


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City  Hall  and  faced  on  Central  avenue. 
This  building  was  of  wood  and  was  torn 
down  in  1891  and  the  new  stone  church 
was  built.  The  new  church  was  opened 
for  use  the  first  Sunday  in  September,  1 892. 
Wm.  H.  Ward  of  Lowell  was  the  contrac- 
tor for  the  mason  work,  Tibbetts  &  Clark 
for.  the  carpenter  work,  Henry  Vaughan, 
Boston,  was  the  architect. 


Washington    Street    Freewill    Baptist 
Church. 

The  Washington  street  church  was  or- 
ganized Feb- 
ruary 4,  1840, 
with  thirteen 
members, 
most  of  them 
having  been 
members  of 
the  First 
Freewill  Bap- 
tist church, 
organ  i  zed 
seven  years 
before.  For 
nine  months 
meetings  and 
S  u  n  d  a  y  - 
school  were 
held  every 
Sabbath  in  a 
small  upper 
room  at  No. 
246  Central 
avenue,  with 
preaching 
part  of  the 
time.  The 
first  pa  s  t  or 
was  settled  in 
No  v  e  m  b  e  r 
and  the  congregation  so  increased  that 
the  Sabbath  meetings  were  soon  removed 
to  the  Belknap  schoolhouse,  then  on 
Church  street  and  afterwards  to  the 
Court  House. 

The  first  house  of  worship  was  built  in 
connection  with  an  office  for  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Morning  Star  at  a  cost  of 
$1600,  and  was  dedicated  September  21, 
1843.  The  church  then  changed  its 
name  from  Central  street  to  Washington 


street  and  the  number  of  its  members  was 
one  hundred  and  fifty.  The  vestry,  part- 
ly under  ground,  was  afterwards  finished 
and  occupied  for  twenty  years,  and  then 
abandoned  as  it  was  damp  and  unhealth- 
ful.  In  1852  the  house  was  enlarged, 
and  the  next  year  an  organ  was  purchased 
at  S8oo. 

The  printing  establishment  needed  en- 
larged accommodations,  and  the  church 
sold  its  interest  in  the  house  and  held  its 
last  service  there  January  26,  1868.  A 
large  brick  edifice  was  erected,  at  a  cost 
of  $24,000,  its  vestries  were  occupied  in 
the  autumn, 
and  the  house 
was  dedica- 
ted October 
28,  1869. 
The  payment 
of  its  debt 
was  complet- 
ed in  April, 
1882,  but  on 
the  morning 
of  May  2d  a 
fire  in  an  ad- 
joining build- 
ing extended 
to  the  church 
and  in  one 
hour  all  was 
in  ruins.  In 
the  afternoon 
a  terrific  wind 
blew  in  a  part 
of  the  stand- 
ing wall,  bury- 
ing five  per- 
sons, four  of 
whom  were 
taken  out 
badly  injured 
and  one  was  instantly  killed. 

Sympathy  was  kindly  offered,  and  the 
Belknap  church,  being  without  a  pastor, 
tendered  the  use  of  its  house,  which  was 
gratefully  accepted  and  occupied  till 
December  24,  when  the  vestries  were 
completed,  and  the  audience  room  was 
dedicated  March  22,  1883.  The  cost  of 
rebuilding  was  $13,000,  including  the 
cost  of  the  organ,  which  was  $1300.  The 
debt  incurred  by  the  rebuilding  was 


WASHINGTON  STREET  FREEWILL  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 


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bravely  carried  by  the  church  until  1893, 
when  the  church  received  $1000  by  be- 
quest from  the  estate 
of  Robert  Cristie. 
By  faithful  effort  and 
noble  sacrifice  over 
$2000  was  raised 
among  its  friends  and 
on  Feb.  4th,  1896, 
they  gathered  in  the 
church  to  witness  the 
burning  of  the  mort- 
gage. Since  then  all 
pews  have  been  free, 
and  the  running  ex- 
penses of  the  church 
have  been  met  by  free- 
will offering. 

The  church  is  thor- 
oughly evangelical  in 
its  spirit  and  methods, 
loyal  to  the  Free  Bap- 
tist faith  and  doctrine, 
and  a  firm  supporter  ot 
denominational  benev- 
olences. In  Oct.,  1897, 
there  were  170  resident 
members  of  the  church  and  58  non-resi- 
dent making  the  total  membership,  228. 


REV.  R.  E    GILKEY. 


sor  Co.,  Vermont,  March  2ist,  1857.  He 
is  the  son  of  John  and  Ann  T.  (Currier) 
Gilkey.  He  was  brought 
up  on  a  farm  where  he 
had  the  advantages  of 
a  common  school  edu- 
cation. At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  entered 
Lyndon  Institute,  Lyn- 
don Centre,  Vt.,  to 
prepare  for  college.  In 
the  fall  of  '77  he  en- 
tered Bates  College, 
Lewiston,  Me.,  gradu- 
ating in  '8 1.  For  three 
years  he  worked  as  a 
druggist,  one  year  in 
Audubon,  Iowa,  and 
two  years  in  Saco,  Me. 
He  then  entered  Cobb 
Divinity  School  in  Lew- 
iston, Me.,  graduating 
in  1887.  He  has  held 
four  pastorates.  The 
first  of  one  year  in  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  the 
second  of  two  years  in 
the  Corliss  Street  church,  Bath,  Me.,  the 
third  of  four  years  in  the  Brown  church, 


FRIENDS  MEETING  HOUSE. 


REV.  R.  E.  GILKEY. 
R.  E.  Gilkey  was  born  in  Sharon,  Wind- 


Richmond,  Me.  He  entered  upon  the 
labors  of  the  fourth  and  present  pastorate 
May  ist,  '92. 


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Society  of  Friends. 

The  first  mention  we  find  of  any  Quak- 
ers in  Dover  is  in  1662  when  three  travel- 
ing sisters  were  whipped  out  of  town  by 
order  of  Major  Walderne.  Dr.  Belknap 
remarks  in  his  "  History  of  New  Hamp- 
shire "  that  the  Friends  once  comprised 
a  third  part  of  the  population  of  the  town. 
Their  numbers  now  are  quite  respectable. 
The  first  "  meeting"  of  Friends  in  Dover 
was  established  at  Dover  Neck  as  early  as 
1680,  where  their  first  meeting-house  was 
built  prior  to  the  year  1700.  It 
stood  about 
half  a  mile  north 
of  the  one  built 
by  the  First 
Parish  two  hun- 
dred years  ago, 
and  was  taken 
down  about  the 
year  1770.  The 
one  now  occu- 
pied by  the  so- 
ciety was  erec- 
ted about  the 
same  time. 
Previous  to  this, 
however,  they 
had  a  small 
house  on  Silver 
street,  which 
was  built  prior 
to  1720,  for  it 
appears  by  their 
records  that  in 
December  o  f 
that  year  they 
"  agreed  to  re- 
pair their  house 
at  Cocheco." 

This     house 

stood  where  the  residence  of  Jacob  K. 
Purington  now  stands.  At  that  time  they 
held  meetings  at  Dover  Neck  as  well  as 
at  Cocheco.  The  first  "Monthly  Meeting" 
was  set  up  in  1702,  and  this  record  ex- 
tends back  to  that  time.  The  first  "  Quar- 
terly Meeting"  was  established  in  1708. 


ADVENT  CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 


Advent  Christian  Church. 

The  Advent  Christian  church  was  or- 


ganized May  4,  1881,  by  a  body  of  Chris- 
tians who  had  worshipped  in  houses  and 
halls  since  1843,  having  been  literally 
without  a  resting-place  during  that  pe- 
riod. At  a  meeting  of  the  society  and 
its  friends  in  the  spring  of  1881,  George 
E.  Durgin,  John  Brooks  and  William  H. 
Vickery  were  appointed  to  contract  for 
the  building  of  a  house  of  worship. 

It  was  built  from  the  plans  and  under 
the  direction  of  George  Brown,  the  ar- 
chitect, at  a  cost  of  $5000.  The  seats 
are  free  and  the  church  is  supported  by 
free-will  offerings.  The  building  contains 
an  audience- 
room,  36  x  48 
feet,  and  a  ves- 
try in  the  base- 
ment. The 
house  was  ded- 
icated April  1 6, 
1882,  by  a  ser- 
mon preached 
by  Elder  John 
Couch,  of  Law- 
rence, Mass. 

The  First 
Unitarian 

Society 

of    Christians 

in  Dover. 

The  fi  r  s  t 
meeting  for 
forming  this  so- 
ciety was  held 
Aug.  28,  1827, 
the  society  be- 
ing organized 
on  the  4th  of 
September  fol- 
lowing. 

The  first  meeting  for  public  worship 
was  holden  at  the  Court  House,  Nov.  4, 
of  the  same  year,  when  Rev.  Henry  Ware, 
]r.,  then  pastor  of  the  New  Brick  church, 
Hanover  street,  Boston,  and  afterwards 
Professor  of  Pulpit  Eloquence  in  Cam- 
bridge Divinity  school,  officiated.  The 
house  was  built  of  brick  in  the  year  1828, 
situated  on  Locust  street  and  cost  $12060. 
It  was  dedicated  and  Rev.  Samuel  Kirk- 
land  Lothrop  ordained  Feb.  17,  1829. 


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FIRST  UNITARIAN  CHURCH. 


square  feet,  stood  two 
houses,  one  of  which  he 
moved  away,  converting  the 
other  to  rectory  uses  at  an 
additional  expense  of  $  1 2 oo . 
Father  Richard  began 
building  St.  Charles'  Church 
May  i,  1896,  and  said  the 
first  Mass  therein  on  the 
eighth  day  of  the  following 
November.  The  church 
cost,  to  build,  §9400,  the 
fittings  and  furnishings  run- 
ning the  total  expense  up 
to  $12,000. 

REV.  JULIAN  J.  RICHARD. 

Father  Richard  was  born 
at  St.  Maurice,  P.  Q.,  March 
24,  1856,  studied  at  the 
college  and  seminary  of 
Three  Rivers,  and  was  or- 
dained Sept.  19,  1880,  by 
Bishop  Laflesche,  for  the 
diocese  of  Three  Rivers.  For 
seven  years  after  ordination 
he  was  a  professor  in  the 


The  dedicatory  services 
were  performed  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Nichols,  of  Portland, 
and  ordination  sermon  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Parker,  of  Port- 
land. The  church  was 
gathered  the  evening  pre- 


St.  Charles  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

The  parish  of  St.  Charles, 
consisting  of  the  French- 
Canadians  of  Dover,  was 
organized  in  1893.  Rev. 
Julian  J.  Richard  was  ap- 
pointed first  pastor,  Nov. 
5,  of  the  same  year,  saying 
Mass  the  following  Sunday 
in  Lowell  Hall,  where  he 
officiated  regularly.  Aug. 
17,  1894,  he  bought,  for 
$6500,  a  fine  lot  on  the  cor- 
ner of  Third  and  Grove 
streets.  On  this  property, 
which  contains  10,000 


ST.  CHARLES  CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 


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college  of  Three  Rivers,  afterwards  spend- 
ing a  year  on  duty  at  the  cathedral.  He 
came  to  the  diocese  of  Manchester  June 
23,  1888,  and  was  thereupon  stationed 
at  St.  Augustine's,  Manchester,  where  he 
remained  until  April  17,  1890,  when  he 
was  transferred  to  St.  Mary's  Church,  in 
the  same  city.  April  3,  1893,  he  was 
made  administrator  of  St.  Francis  Xavier's 
Church  in  Nashua,  the  pastor  being  in 
Europe.  From  the  latter  city  he  came 
to  Dover. 


retary,  Burton  T.  Scales  ;  Auditor,  Ernest 
B.  Folsom  ;  and  Board  of  Directors,  Chas. 
E.  Gate,  Rev.  W.  H.  S.  Hascall,  Alfred 
E.  Faye,  Frank  E.  Meserve,  E.  H.  Frost, 
T.  M.  Henderson,  H.  H.  Burley,  E.  A. 
Crawford ;  E.  B.  Read,  General  Secretary. 


Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 

The  Dover  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation was  organized 
in  1888  and  first  occu- 
pied rooms  in  Ham's 
Block  on  Washington 
street.  Soon  after  the 
increased  membership 
demandrd  larger  quar- 
ters and  the  association 
moved  to  Odd  Fellows' 
Block.  In  December, 
1896,  the  new  Union 
Block  was  completed, 
the  entire  second  floor 
of  which  was  fitted  up 
for  the  Association, 
with  reading  and  recre- 
ation rooms,  parlors,  a 
well  equipped  gymna- 
sium, with  baths,  and 
a  hall  with  seating  ca- 
pacity of  about  two 
hundred.  The  rooms 
are  open  every  week 
day  from  9  A.  M.  to  10 
p.  M.  and  on  Sunday 
afternoons,  and  the  strange  young  man 
from  out  of  town  always  receives  a  cordial 
welcome.  Through  its  reading-room,  li- 
brary, mock- congress,  camera  club,  gym- 
nasium, pleasant,  social  life,  religious  ser- 
vices, the  Association  seeks  to  elevate 
men,  mentally,  physically  and  morally. 
Membership  is  open  to  all  young  men  of 
good  moral  character.  At  the  present 
time  the  Association  has  a  membership  of 
nearly  200  with  officers  as  follows  : 

President,  William  C.  Ogden  :  Treas- 
urer, Frank  E.  Garside ;   Recording  Sec- 


REV.  JAMES  THUR8TON. 


Rev.  James  Thurston. 

Rev.  James  Thurston  is  of  the  seventh 
generation  from  the  common  ancestor  of 
the  Thurstons  of  New  England — Daniel 
Thurston,  who  immigrated  to  old  New- 
bury,  Mass.,  in  1635. 

He  was  born  in  Buxton,  York  County, 
Maine,  March  12,  1816.  His  parents 
removed  to  Danville, 
now  Auburn,  Me.,when 
he  was  quite  young. 
His  early  life  was 
spent  on  the  farm  and 
he  enjoyed  such  edu- 
cational advantages  as 
were  found  in  the 
cou ntry  common 
schools  of  that  day. 
He  subsequently  com- 
pleted a  course  of 
studies  in  the  Maine 
Wesleyan  Seminary  at 
Readfield,  Me.  He 
commenced  his  career 
as  a  minister  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  1838  and 
remained  in  that  work 
in  Maine  when  he  was 
"  transferred  "  by  the 
venerable  Bishop  Hed- 
ding  to  the  New 
Hampshire  conference. 
His  first  appointment  in  New  Hampshire 
was  at  Portsmouth  in  1 848.  He  has  served 
some  of  the  principal  churches  in  the  state 
and  had  two  terms  as  Presiding  Elder. 
He  has  twice  been  chosen  as  delegate  by 
his  brethren  to  the  general  conference. 
He  was  appointed  as  pastor  of  the 
church  in  this  city  in  1869  and  served  two 
years  when  he  was  disabled  by  nervous 
prostration.  During  all  the  period  of  his 
ministerial  life  he  preached  twice  on  ev- 
ery Sabbath  and  often  three  times.  He 
never  had  the  benefit  of  a  vacation,  which 


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was  something  quite  unknown  in  those 
days.  In  all  the  earlier  years  of  his  ser- 
vice he  received  but  a  meager  compensa- 
tion for  his  labors.  He  was  married  in 
1840  to  Miss  Clara  A.  Flint  of  Lubec, 
Me.,  who  was  always  a  most  worthy  helper 
in  all  his  labor.  She  died  in  1890.  Mr. 
Thurston  has  made  Dover  his  home  for 
nearly  thirty  years,  and  is  now  the  oldest 
resident  clergyman  in  our  city.  He  has 
served  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  as 
chaplain  two 
t  e  r  m  s ,  the 
only  minister 
who  had  that 
distinction. 
H  e  w  a  s  a 
member  of 
the  House  of 
Represen  ta- 
tives  in  1885, 
from  Ward 
two  in  this 
city  and  a 
member  of  the 
constitutional 
convention  in 
1889,  serving 
as  chaplain  to 
that  body.  He 
has  performed 
such  ministe- 
rial service 
as  his  strength 
would  allow, 
having  been  a 
Class  Leader 
and  Trustee 
of  St.  John's 
church.  He 
has  acted  as 
corr  e  s  p  o  n  - 
dent  for  sev- 
eral newspa- 
pers. He  is  a  member  of  Strafford  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons  and  an  honorary  member 
of  St.  Paul  Commandery  Knights  Templar. 
He  is  the  oldest  Mason  in  this  vicinity, 
having  been  made  one  in  1844.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  conservative  Republican. 


HARRISON   HALEY. 


Harrison  Haley. 

Harrison  Haley  is  a  son  of  John  and 


Sally  (Butler)  Haley  and  was  born  at 
Lee.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Lee,  Newmarket  and  Ports- 
mouth. Upon  leaving  school  he  entered 
his  brother's  grocery  store  at  Newmarket 
as  clerk  and  later  accepted  a  position  as 
salesman  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Lowell. 
In  the  fall  of  1849  he  came  to  Dover  and 
opened  a  dry  goods  .store  in  which  busi- 
ness he  continued  until  the  fall  of  1870 
when  he  was  chosen  cashier  of  the  Co- 
checo  Nation- 
al Bank,  which 
pos  i  t  i  o  n  he 
has  since 
filled.  Mr.  Ha- 
ley has  ever 
been  most  ac- 
tive in  the  va- 
rious enter- 
prises of  the 
city,  always 
ready  to  do  his 
part  to  pro- 
m  o  t  e  any 
cause  that  was 
for  the  good 
of  our  citizens. 
His  public 
spirite  d  n  e  s  s 
and  persever- 
ance  have 
been  manifest 
in  many  of  the 
public  enter- 
prises of  Do- 
ver. Through 
his  energetic 
efforts  a  street 
ra  i  1  w  a  y  was 
built,  adding 
considera  b  1  y 
to  the  conven- 
ience of  the 

public.  The  introduction  of  the  City 
Water  Works,  the  establishment  of  a  Chil- 
dren's Home  and  a  Home  for  Aged  Peo- 
ple are  among  the  movements  which  en- 
gaged his  interest  and  zeal.  The  erection 
of  an  Observatory  on  Garrison  Hill  from 
which  thousands  of  people  have  greatly 
enjoyed  the  grand  views,  was  also  an  en- 
terprise of  his.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  City  Government  and  of  the  Board 


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of  Education.  In  religious  persuasion  he  is 
a  Methodist  and  has  been  for  seventeen 
years  Superintendent  of  the  St.  John's 
Methodist  Episcopal  Sunday-school. 


Hon.  Charles  H.  Sawyer. 


Charles  Henry  Sawyer  was  born  in 
Watertown,  N.  Y.,  March  30,  1840.  He 
is  eldest  son  of  Jonathan  and  Martha 
(Perkins)  Sawyer.  His  ancestry  on  both 
the  paternal  and  maternal  sides  were 
among  the 
early  settlers 
of  Massachu- 
setts. Heat- 
tended  the 
schools  of 
Watertown 
until  he  was 
ten  years  of 
age,  when  the 
family  re- 
moved to  Do- 
ver, and  he 
completed  his 
education  in 
this  city.  He 
entered  the 
Sawyer  Wool- 
en Mills  at  the 
age  of  seven- 
teen,  the 
plant  then  be- 
ing engaged 
in  the  manu- 
facture  of 
flannels.  He 
had  become 
thor  o  u  g  h  1  y 


was  delegate  to  the  National  Republican 
Convention  in  Chicago.  In  1886  he  was 
elected  Governor  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  during  his  term  of  office  he  repre- 
sented the  state  in  many  centennial  cele- 
brations that  were  held  during  that  pe- 
riod, particularly  at  Philadelphia  on  the 
occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  one 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  promulga- 
tion of  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  Another  centennial  was  that  in 
New  York  of  the  inauguration  of  Presi- 
dent Wash- 


proficient  in 
the  business 
at  the  age  of  twenty-six  and  was  then  ap- 
pointed Superintendent  of  the  Mills.  In 
1 88 1  he  became  President  of  the  com- 
pany and  since  then  the  general  manage- 
ment of  the  mills  has  been  in  his  hands. 
Throughout  his  business  career  Mr.  Saw- 
yer has  been  markedly  successful.  He 
has  held  many  public  offices.  He  served 
in  both  branches  of  the  City  Councils,  was 
Representative  to  the  Legislature  in  1860- 
'76-'?  7,  a  member  of  the  staff  of  Governor 
Charles  H.  Bell  in  1881,  and  in  1884  he 


HON.  CHARLES   H.  SAWYER. 


ington.  Mr. 
Sawyer  is  a 
Director  of 
the  Strafford 
National 
Bank,  a  Trus- 
tee and  Vice- 
President  of 
the  Strafford 
Savings  Bank 
and  a  Direc- 
tor of  the 
Dover  Gas 
Light  Com- 
pany. He 
has  held  the 
positions  of 
President  of 
the  Dover 
Horse  Rail- 
r  o  a  d  Com- 
pany, Direc- 
tor and  Exec- 
utive Member 
of  the  Gran- 
ite State  In- 
surance Com- 
pany, Presi- 
dent of  the 
Elliot  Bridge  Company,  a  Director  of 
the  Dover  and  Portsmouth,  the  Dover, 
Great  Falls  and  Conway,  and  the  Wolfe- 
boro  Branch  Railroads.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  Society  of  Do- 
ver. He  is  a  Mason  and  has  been  twice 
chosen  Master  of  the  lodge  and  for  many 
years  was  Eminent  Commander  of  St. 
Paul  Commandery,  Knights  Templar. 
Mr.  Sawyer  was  married  February  8,  1865, 
to  Susan  Ellen,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  W. 
and  Elizabeth  Cowan  of  this  city.  Their 


n8 


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children  are,  William  Davis,  who  married 
Susan  Gertrude, 
daughter  of  Hon. 
Joshua  G.  Hall; 
Charles  Francis, 
who  married  Ger- 
trude  C  hild, 
daughter  of  Hon. 
Henry  W.  Sever- 
ance of  San  Fran- 
cisco;  James 
Cowan,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Pep- 
perell,  daughter  of 
Judge  George 
Seward  Frost  ; 
and  Edward  and 
Elizabeth  Coffin 
Sawyer. 

The  Dover 
Clothing 
Company. 

The  Dover 
Clothing  C  o  m  - 
pany  was  estab- 
lished in  1880  and 
has  built  up  a  bus- 


WINFIELD  S.   BRADLEY. 


iness  which  is  remarkable  alike  for  its 
magnitude  and 
scope.  The  com- 
pany's popularity 
lies  in  the  fact 
that  all  classes  of 
trade  are  catered 
to  with  equal  care 
and  ability.  They 
will  make  you  as 
choice  a  custom 
garment  as  any 
tailor  in  New  Eng- 
land, and  they 
will  furnish  you 
with  a  strong,  dur- 
able garment  at  a 
very  low  price,  for 
working  wear. 
Their  custom 
made  garments 
are  absolutely  cor- 
rect in  fit,  style 
and  finish  and  the 
assortment  of  pat- 
terns kept  in  stock 
embraces  all  the 
well  known  cloths, 
woolens  and  cas- 


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119 


simeres    manufactured 
Woolen  Mills. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Bradley, 
the  proprietor  of  this 
representative  estab- 
lishment, is  a  native  of 
Fairfteld,  Vt.,  and  is 
widely  and  favorably 
known  in  business  cir- 
cles throughout  this 
section  of  the  state. 
He  gives  close  super- 
vision to  the  various 
departments  of  the 
undertaking,  and  has 
the  business  thorough- 
ly systematized.  From 
six  to  ten  assistants 
are  employed  in  the 
store,  and  from  twen- 
ty-five to  fifty  in  the 
workrooms,  thus  assur- 
ing prompt  attention 
to  the  needs  of  pat- 
rons. The  premises 
comprise  two  floors 


by     the    Sawyer      sisting  of  a  heavy  stock  of  ready  to  wear 
clothing,  hats,  caps,  and  all  the  latest  fash- 
ionable    novelties    in 
gentlemen's      furnish- 
ings. 

Since  the  opening 
of  this  establishment  it 
has  met  with  splendid 
success  on  account  of 
the  unusually  fine 
stock  of  goods  carried 
and  the  excellent  and 
refined  taste  shown  in 
iheir  selection. 


CHARLES   E.  HODSDON. 


Charles  E.  Hodsdon. 


Charles  E.  Hods- 
don was  born  and  ed- 
ucated in  Dover.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen 
years  he  entered  the 
store  of  C._EJ_  Bacon 
to  learn  the  jewelry 
business  and  served 
eleven  years  perfecting 


INTERIOR  HOD8DON  JEWELRY  STORE. 


and  a  basement  at  436-438  Central  av- 
enue and  are  well  adapted  for  displaying 
the  excellent  stock  of  goods  carried,  con- 


himself  in  its  every  detail.  Ten  years  ago 
Mr.  Hodsdon  opened  a  modest  store  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  Democrat  office,  and 


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at  the  time  occupied  by  Alexander  Frazier. 
Six  months  later  he  moved  into  his  present 
magnificent  store  in  the  National  Block, 
444  Central  avenue.  The  premises  are 
excellently  fitted  up,  the  furnishings  benig 
of  a  substantial  nature.  Handsome  plate- 
glass  show  cases  show  to  perfection  the 
rare  assortment  of  cut  and  uncut  gems 
and  precious  stones,  diamonds,  solid  gold 
rings,  watches,  chains,  and  ornaments  all 
tastefully  arranged  and  bearing  evidence 
of  the  splen- 
did patronage 
the  store  en- 
joys from  the 
best  class  of 
our  citi  zens 
and  those  of 
the  surround- 
ing towns.  Mr. 
Hodsdon  also 
carries  a  line 
of  rare  art  pot- 
tery, solid  sil- 
ver and  silver- 
plated  ware 
and  an  exten- 
sive line  of 
gold  and  silver 
watches  and 
chains,  silver 
toilet  articles, 
bronzes,  onyx 
and  marble 
clocks,  cut 
glass,  specta- 
cles, bric-a- 
brae,  etc. 
Special  atten- 
tion is  devo- 
ted to  watch 
and  jewelry 
repairing  and 
the  mounting 

of  gems.  Everything  carried  in  stock 
is  of  an  exceptionally  fine  quality  suitable 
for  the  most  fastidious  class  of  customers. 
Mr.  George  R.  Hodsdon,  a  graduate  of 
the  Bucklins  School  of  Optics  of  New 
York,  who  has  been  constantly  associated 
with  Mr.  Charles  E.  Hodsdon,  is  in  charge 
of  the  optical  and  engraving  departments. 
He  makes  a  specialty  of  fitting  spectacles 
for  weak  or  defective  sight. 


In  addition  .to  his  jewelry  business, 
Mr.  Hodsdon  conducts  one  of  the  largest 
retail  bicycle  stores  in  the  state,  handling 
the  Stearns,  Victor,  Waverly,  Lovell  Dia- 
mond and  other  high  class  wheels.  In 
the  rear  of  the  store  are  the  workshops 
where  every  class  of  repair  is  attended  to 
by  skilled  workmen  at  short  notice. 


HON.  JOSHUA  OILMAN  HALL. 


Hon.  Joshua  G.  Hall. 

Joshua  Gil- 
man  Hall  is  a 
lineal  descen- 
dant of  Dea- 
con John  Hall, 
who  lived  on 
the  land  now 
cultivated  by 
John  Wesley 
Clements  on 
Dover  Neck. 
The  Hall 
spring  which 
has  been 
known  by  that 
name  for  over 
two  hundred 
years  is  on  the 
Clements 
farm  near  the 
river.  It  has 
been  used  by 
man  and 
beast  since 
the  day  that 
Deacon  Hall 
discovered  it. 
On  the  ma- 
ternal side 
Mr.  Hall  is 
descended 
from  Capt. 
Jeremiah  Gil- 
man  of  Wakefield,  who  was  one  of  Stark's 
officers  at  Bennington,  having  raised  a 
company  for  the  campaign  when  over 
sixty  years  of  age.  Report  says  he  was 
the  first  man  in  the  fight  after  Gen.  Stark 
who  led  the  column. 

Mr.  Hall  is  the  son  of  Joshua  G.  and 
Betsy  (Plummer)  Hall  of  Wakefield,  where 
he  was  born  Nov.  5,  1828.  He  gradu- 
ated at  Dartmouth  college  in  July,  1851, 


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and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1855. 
Since  1857  he  has  resided  in  Dover.  His 
public  services  have  been  practically  con- 
tinuous from  June,  1862,  to  March  4, 
1 88 1,  having  been  Solicitor  for  the  County 
of  Strafford  from  June,  1862  to  June, 
1874  ;  Mayor  of  Dover,  1866,  1867  ;  City 
Solicitor,  1868,  1869;  member  New 
Hampshire  Senate  i87i-'72;  Represen- 
tative to  New  Hampshire  Legislature, 
1874;  Attorney  of  the  United  States  for 
the  district  of 
New  Hamp- 
shire from 
April,  1874, 
to  Feb., 
1879;  elec- 
ted to  the 
forty  -sixth 
Congress  and 
re-elected  to 
the  forty- 
seventh  as  a 
Rep  ublican, 
receiving  16,- 
310  votes 
against  15,- 
047  for  John 
W.  Sanborn 
of  Wakefield. 
In  these  vari- 
ous offices  he 
has  been  dili- 
gent in  the 
discharge  of 
his  public  du- 
ties and  the 
confidence  of 
his  fellow  cit- 
i  z  e  n  s  has 
been  shown 
by  continued 
advance- 
ment.  He  is 
a  deacon  in  the  First  Parish  Congrega- 
tional church  in  Dover  of  which  his  an- 
cestor, John  Hall,  was  first  deacon,  and 
where,  in  the  words  of  the  old  Dover 
records  for  the  year  1671,  he  "  agried 
with  the  selectmen  to  sweep  the  Meeting- 
House  and  ring  the  bell  for  one  hole  yier 
&  to  have  for  that  serves  the  sum  of  ten 
pounds."  On  Nov.  16,  1861,  he  was  unit- 
ed in  marriage  to  Miss  Susan  Elizabeth 


Bigelow  of  Boston,  Mass.  Their  chil- 
dren have  been  Grace  Bjgelow,  who  mar- 
ried Wm.  H.  Cook  of  Florida,  Susan  Ger- 
trude, who  married  Gen.  William  D.  Saw- 
yer of  Dover,  and  a  son,  Dwight  Hale,  who 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  1894  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1897. 
Mr.  Hall  died  Oct.  31,  1898. 


GEN.  WILLIAM   D.  SAWYER. 


Gen,  William  Davis  Sawyer. 

William 
Davis  Sawyer 
was  born  No- 
vember 22, 
1866.  He  is 
the  eldest 
son  of  Hon. 
Charles  H. 
and  Susan 
Ellen  (Cow- 
an) Sawyer. 
General  Saw- 
yer was  edu- 
cated in  the 
p  u  b  1  i  c 
schools  and 
grad  u  a  t  e  d 
from  the 
PJiJJJL  i_p  s 
Academy, 
Andover,  in 
1885.'  He 
pursued  his 
st  u  d  i  e  s  at 
Yale  Univer- 
sity and  re- 
ceived the 
degree  of  A. 
B.  from  that 
institution  in 
1889,  imme- 
diately tak- 
ing up  a  bus- 
iness career  in  connection  with  the  Saw- 
yer Woolen  Mills,  in  which  he  has  held 
the  responsible  position  of  Treasurer  since 
1891.  Gen.  Sawyer  is  a  Director  of  the 
Portsmouth  &  Dover  R.  R.  and  was  Quar- 
termaster General  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
John  B.  Smith,  with  the  rank  of  Brigadier 
General.  He  has  always  taken  a  deep  in- 
terest in  politics  and  has  been  a  delegate 
to  the  Republican  National  Convention 


DOVER  J623-J898 


of  1896,  member  of  the  committee  to 
notify  President  McKinley  of  his  nomina- 
tion, member  of  the  Republican  State 
Committee  since  1890  and  of  the  Exec- 
utive Committee  of  same  in  1896.  Gen. 
Sawyer  is  also  a  member  of  Moses  Paul 
Lodge  No.  96  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  Belknap 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Orphan 
Council,  St.  Paul  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  and  of  the  Amoskeag  Veterans 
of  Manchester.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  following 
clubs  :  B  e  1  - 
lamy  Club, 
Dover ;  Der- 
ryfield  Club, 
M  a  n  Chester  ; 
Pise  a  t  a  q  u  a 
Yacht  Club, 
Kittery ;  Uni- 
versity, Yale 
and  Wool 
Clubs  of  New 
York  city. 
Gen.  Sawyer 
married  Susan 
Gertrude, 
dang  h  t  e  r  of 
Hon.  Joshua 
G.  Hall  and 
has  two  chil- 
dren, J  o  n  a  - 
than  and  Eliz- 
abeth Bige- 
low. 

Charles 
Henry   Fish. 

Charles  H. 
Fish,  Agent  of 
the  Cocheco 
Man  ufactur- 
ing  Company,  was  born  in  Taunton, 
Mass.,  a  son  of  Captain  F.  L.  and  Mary 
(Jarvis)  Fish.  After  receiving  his  edu- 
cation Mr.  Fish  entered  the  machine 
shops  of  the  Amoskeag  Manufacturing 
Company  in  Manchester,  and  from  that 
time  has  been  actively  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing. He  was  appointed  agent  of  the 
Cocheco  Company's  Mills  and  Print 
Works  September  ist,  1895,  succeeding 
Mr.  John  Holland. 


CHARLES  H.  FISH. 


Colonel  George  H.  Peirce. 

Colonel  George  H.  Peirce  was  a  native 
of  this  city,  where  he  was  born  February 
15,  1829,  and  always  had  his  home. 
Educated  among  us,  early  identifying  him- 
self with  the  business  interests  of  Dover, 
growing  with  its  growth,  and  always  ac- 
tively interested  with  whatever  in  his 
view  tended  to  its  prosperity  and  progress, 
few  men  became  better  known,  and  few 
acquired  and 
retained 
through  life  a 
wider  per- 
sonal popular- 
ity and  influ- 
ence. A  man 
of  generous 
impulses,  lib- 
eral and  open- 
hearted,  not 
without  his 
faults,  but  pos- 
sessing many 
marked  excel- 
1  e  n  c  i  e  s  and 
sterling  traits 
of  character. 
Possessed  of 
excellent  judg- 
ment, great 
energy,  and 
rare  business 
qualifications  , 
he  was  a  thor- 
oughly active, 
enterpri  sing 
and  progres- 
sive man.  In 
his  opinions 
he*  was  out- 
spoken, and 
no  one  ever  had  reason  to  doubt  his  po- 
sition on  any  question.  Nevertheless  he 
retained  the  regard  of  those  whom  he 
opposed,  and  seldom  lost  his  friends  while 
continually  drawing  new  ones  around  him. 
From  his  early  youth  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  business,  commencing  in 
partnership  with  his  brother,  Andrew 
Peirce,  now  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  late 
Thomas  Stackpole  of  this  city,  as  whole- 
sale merchant  on  Dover  Landing,  and 


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123 


afterwards  continuing  the  firm  with  Elisha 
Jewett,  of  South  Berwick,  Me.  His  at- 
tention, however,  was  early  called  to  rail- 
road construction,  in  which  he  first  en- 
gaged, as  early  as  1850,  on  the  extension 
of  the  Cocheco  Railroad  from  Farmington 
to  Alton  Bay.  In  1852,  in  company  with 
Elisha  Jewett  and  William  Flynn,  he  took 
a  large  contract  on  the  Southbridge  and 
Blackstone  Railroad,  now  a  part  of  the 
Air  Line  from  New  York  to  Boston  ;  and 
about  the 
same  time  he 
became  en- 
gaged in  the 
Saratoga  and 
Sackett's  Har- 
bor Road, 
running  large- 
ly through  the 
wilderness  of 
Northern 
New  York. 
He  afterwards 
became  inter- 
ested in  many 
large  con- 
tracts on  va- 
rious roads, 
including 
among  others 
the  Fall  River 
and  Newport, 
the  extension 
of  the  Con- 
cord &  Ports- 
m  ou  t  h  to 
Manchest  e  r , 
the  Little 
Rock  and 
Fort  Smith, 
Ark.  Railway, 
the  extension 
of  the  Boston 

&  Maine  to  Portland,  and  the  Portsmouth 
and  Dover.  In  the  last  two  he  had  as 
partners  Messrs.  Flynn  and  Charles  B. 
Gardner  of  this  city.  Colonel  Peirce's 
largest  contract  was  for  the  construction 
of  the  European  and  North  American,  at 
a  cost  of  $7,500,000.  He  subsequently 
sold  out  his  interest  in  this.  He  had 
nearly  completed  the  Portsmouth  &  Do- 
ver road  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  Sept. 


COLONEL  GEORGE  H.    PEIRCE 


!3>  l&73-  Had  he  lived  he  would  un- 
doubtedly have  had  the  contract  for  the 
Great  Falls  and  Conway  extension  from 
Great  Falls  to  Dover.  In  politics  Col- 
onel Peirce  was  always  a  Democrat,  yet 
he  often  voted  independently  and  never 
blindly  followed  party  dictation  in  the 
support  of  bad  nominations.  He  was 
twice  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  Rail- 
road Commissioner,  running  ahead  of  his 
party  in  both  elections.  He  also  repre- 
sented Ward 
3,  in  which 
there  was  an 
a  n  t  i  -  Demo- 
cratic major- 
ity of  162 — a 
result  that 
was  due  in 
part  to  his 
well-  known 
views  on  rail- 
road questions 
i  den  t  ifie  d 
with  the  pros- 
perity of  Do- 
ver, but  alto- 
gether more 
to  his  great 
personal  pop- 
ularity. 

Charles 
Francis 
Sawyer. 

Charles 
Francis  Saw- 
yer,second  son 
of  Charles  H. 
and  Susan  E. 
(Cowan)  Saw- 
yer, was  born 
in  Dover  Jan. 

1 6th,  1869.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Dover  public  schools,  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  Yale  University.  He 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Sawyer  Woolen 
Mills  in  1889  and  is  now  superintendent 
and  director  of  that  company,  has  served 
in  both  branches  of  the  Dover  City  Gov- 
ernment, also  in  the  New  Hampshire  Na- 
tional Guard  as  2nd  Lieutenant  of  Com- 
pany D,  ist  Regiment  and  Captain  and 


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Commissary  on  the  Brigade  Commander's 
staff.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Par- 
ish (Congregational)  church,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Moses  Paul  Lodge,  Belknap  Chap- 
ter, Orphan  Council,  and  St.  Paul  Com- 
mandery  K.  T. ;  is  a  Past  Eminent  Com- 
mander of  St.  Paul  Commandery  and  is 
at  present  an  officer  in  the  Grand  Com- 
mandery of  New  Hampshire.  Mr.  Saw- 
yer is  a  member  of  Dover  Grange  and 
of  the  Bellamy  Club.  He  married  Jan. 
2gth,  1895, 
Gertrude 
Child,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  H. 
W.  Severance 
of  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

Granite 
State    Park. 

Granite 
State  Park  was 
purchased  in 
the  spring  of 
1896  from  the 
St  r  a  ff  o  r  d 
County  Agri- 
cultural Soci- 
ety by  Frank 
A.  Christie  for 
Hon.  Frank 
Jones.  Mr. 
Jones  is  Pres- 
ident of  the 
Granite  State 
Park  Associa- 
tion and  is  also 
largely  inter- 
ested in  the 
Readville  and 
Rigby  tracks. 
In  May  of  the  same  year  Mr.  Christie  be- 
gan making  improvements.  Two  feet 
of  thoroughly  ground  and  fine-screened 
loam  was  spread  on  the  track  which  is 
now  such  that  horses  and  colts  can  be 
worked  out  without  any  possibility  of 
getting  sore  feet.  Three  hundred  new 
horse  sheds  have  been  built  providing  the 
most  excellent  conveniences  for  the  sta- 
bling of  horses.  A  steel  water  tower  93 
feet  high  with  a  tank  holding  30,000  gal- 


CHARLES  FRANCIS  SAWYER. 


Ions  of  water  has  been  erected,  thus  en- 
suring a  plentiful  supply  of  pure  water 
which  is  conveyed  throughout  the  Park 
by  means  of  four  inch  pipes.  Mr.  Jones 
has  also  remodeled  and  enlarged  a  capa- 
cious house  within  the  park  and  has  fur- 
nished and  equipped  it  as  a  first-class 
hotel  and  clubhouse.  The  Park  Tavern 
as  it  has  been  named,  has  become  most 
popular  with  horsemen  and  its  success  is 
assured.  It  is  lighted  by  electricity  and 
heated  by 
steam 
thro  u  g  h  o  u  t 
and  every  at- 
tention is  paid 
to  the  require- 
ments of  own- 
ers and  train- 
ers of  horses. 
The  "  fi r  s  t 
race  meeting 
was  held  in 
August,  1897. 
On  the  first 
day  it  was 
used,  Gentry 
went  a  mile 
over  it  in 
2.04  3-4,  the 
last  half  in 
i  .01.  T  h  e 
Horse  Review, 
in  speaking  of 
the  horse 
"  G  a  z  e  t  te," 
says  :  "  Last 
season  he 
paced  a  suc- 
c  e  s  s  i  o  n  of 
staunch  and 
game  races. 
At  Portland, 
Me.,  August  20,  he  won  a  great  six-heat 
contest,  taking  the  last  three  heats  in 
2. 1 1  1-4,  2.09  1-4,  2.10  1-4,  beating 
seven  horses.  This  he  followed  up  by  a 
wonderful  eight-heat  victory  at  Dover, 
beating  the  pacing  queen  Lottie  Loraine, 
and  four  others  in  a  tremendous  contest, 
and  taking  the  third,  fourth  and  eighth 
heats  in  2.09,  2.10  1-2,  2.10  3-4.  His 
eighth  heat  in  2.10  3-4,  driven  by  Tom 
Marsh  at  Dover,  stands  as  the  best  on 


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record.  In  this  race  Lottie  Loraine  paced 
a  mile  in  2.07  3-4,  which  was  at  that 
time  within  one  second  of  the  world's 
record  for  mares."  Marion  Mills  paced 
a  mile  over  this  track  in  2.06  1-4.  The 
track  measures  7  inches  over  a  mile,  and 
has  one  of  the  finest  hub  rails  of  any 
track  in  the  country. 

Granite  State  Park  is  without  doubt  to- 
day, all  points  considered,  the  best  mile 
track  in  the  world  over  which  to  condi- 
tion and  race 
horses.  There 
is  a  decided 
change  in  the 
grade  of  each 
quarter  which 
is  thought  very 
desirable  for 
con  ditioning 
horses.  The 
roads  in  four 
different  di- 
rections are 
perfect  for 
road  work. 
The  track  is 
on  high  land 
bordering  on 
a  beau  t  i  f  u  1 
sheet  of  water 
known  as 
"  W  i  1 1  a  n  d  s 
Pond."  Frank 
A.  Christie, 
the  Treasurer 
and  Manager 
of  the  Associ- 
a  t  i  o  n ,  has 
done  much  to 
bring  about 
the  pr  e  s  e  n  t 
excellent  state 
of  affairs.  He 

has  worked  indefatigably  to  make  the 
track  as  near  perfection  as  possible,  and 
the  success  which  has  attended  his  capa- 
ble management  is  best  evidenced  by 
the  large  list  of  entries  at  each  meeting. 

Directed  by  an  executive  staff  em- 
bodying experience,  energy  and  wealth, 
with  a  track  having  a  record  as  one  of 
the  fastest  in  the  land  the  association  has 
acquired  a  reputation  which  they  will  al- 


ways sustain.  The  purses  are  generous, 
and  the  conduct  of  its  affairs,  the  results 
of  its  gatherings,  the  importance  of  the 
events,  and  the  interest  attending  them 
together  with  the  achievements  upon  the 
speedy  and  magnificent  one  mile  track 
are  guarantees  of  the  honorable  and  pro- 
gressive management  which  is  character- 
istic of  Hon.  Frank  Jones  in  all  his 
affairs. 


HOWARD  GRAY. 


Howard 
Gray. 

Howard 
Gray,  Super- 
intendent of 
the  Cocheco 
Man  ufactur- 
ing  C  o  m  - 
pany's  Print 
Works,  was 
born  at  Dor- 
chester, Mass. 
In  1883  he 
became  con- 
nected with 
the  M  e  r  r  i  - 
m  a'c  k  Print 
Works  at 
Lowell,  Mass., 
and  spent 
thirteen  years 
there  learning 
the  business 
in  all  its 
branches.  He 
came  to  Do- 
ver in  1895 
to  enter  the 
e  m  ployment 
of  the  Coche- 
co Manufac- 
turing Com- 
pany and  was  appointed  Superintendent 
of  their  Print  Works  in  February,  1896. 


John  Drowne. 

John  Drowne,  Superintendent  of  the 
Cocheco  Manufacturing  Company's  Mills, 
was  born  at  Eaton,  N.H.,  and  received  his 
education  at  the  district  and  high  schools 
of  his  native  town.  At  the  age  of  eigh- 


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teen  he  enlisted  in  the  Eighteenth  New 
Hampshire  Regiment  and  saw  service 
with  the  Ninth  Army  Corps  in  front  of 
Petersburg.  In  July,  1865,  at  the  close 
of  the  war,  he  received  an  honorable  dis- 
charge. The  following  year  he  entered 
the  -employment  of  the  Atlantic  Cotton 
Mills  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1869  when  he  went  to  Hous- 
ton, Texas,  to  start  the  weaving  in  the 
Houston  Mills.  A  year  later  he  returned 
to  the  Atlan- 
tic Mills  at 
Lawrence  and 
remained  until 
1874  when  he 
went  to  New 
Hartford, 
Conn.  In 
1876  he  en- 
tered the  ser- 
vice of  the 
Wamsutta 
Mills,  New 
Bedford,  re- 
maining until 
1880  when  he 
ret  u  r  n  e  d  to 
New  Hartford 
Conn.,  as  Su- 
perintend e  n  t 
of  Greenwood 
C  o  m  p  a  n  y's 
Mills.  He 
came  to  Dover 
in  March, 
1896,  as  Su- 
perintend e  n  t 
of  the  Coche- 
co  Company's 
Mills,  a  posi- 
tion which  he 
has  since  most 
capably  filled. 

Mr.  Drowne  is  a  Thirty-Second  Degree 
Mason,  Lafayette  Consistory,  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  a  member  of  Amos  Beecher  Lodge 
No.  121,  New  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  of 
Washington  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar, Hartford,  Conn.  He  is  also  promi- 
nently associated  with  the  I.  O.  O.  F., 
being  a  member  of  Monadnock  Lodge, 
No.  145,  Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  of  Anna- 
warn  Encampment  No.  8,  New  Bedford, 


Mass.      He  is  a  member  of  Charles  W. 
Sawyer  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  Dover. 


JOHN   DROWNE. 


Arioch  Wentworth. 

^Aripch  Wentwqrth  was  born  in  Rollins- 
ford,  just  beyond  the  Dover  boundary, 
June  13,  1813.  He  is  the  son  of  Bar- 
tholomew and  Nancy  (Hall)  Wentworth 
and  a  direct  descendant  of  Elder  William 
from  whom  have  sprung  the  Colonial 
Governors  of 
New  Hamp- 
shire and  the 
other  illustri- 
ous men  who 
bear  that 
name.  Elder 
William  came 
to  Dover  from 
England  in 
1639  and  his 
ancestry  can 
be  traced  back 
to  the  year 
1066,  when 
William  t  h  e 
Conqueror 
subdued  Eng- 
land.  Mr. 
Wen  t  w  o  r  t  h 
was  born  in 
the  old  home- 
stead which 
was  granted 
to  Elder  Wil- 
liam 250  years 
ago  and  still 
remains  in 
possession  of 
the  family. 
He  received 
his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  at  Dover  and  Rol- 
linsford  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  attend- 
ed the  Franklin  Academy,  spending  five 
winter  terms  acquiring  knowledge.  In 
the  summer  months  he  worked  on  his 
father's  farm.  Although  urged  by  his 
father  to  prepare  for  college  he  decided 
to  go  to  Boston.  He  felt  a  craving  for  a 
broader  life  with  larger  opportunities  and 
carried  out  his  determination.  He  was 
fortunate  in  securing  work  in  a  granite 


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yard.  Subsequently  he  went  to  work  in 
a  soapstone  factory  and  received  good 
pay.  He  was  temperate  and  frugal,  and 
having  saved  a  little  money  went  home  in 
the  fall,  and  added  a  little  to  it  by  teach- 
ing school  through  the  winter. 

He  returned  to  Boston  in  the  spring, 
leased  the  place  which  belonged  to  Mr. 
Blunt,  his  former  employer,  who  had 
failed,  worked  energetically  and  entered 
upon  and 
pros  e  c  u  t  e  d 
with  vigor  the 
soapstone 
business,  then 
new  and  un- 
tried. He  suc- 
ceeded and 
made  money. 
He  had  me- 
chanical gen- 
ius, industry, 
t  e  mperance, 
and  economy 
and  devoted 
his  time  to  a 
fast  growing 
business.  Mr. 
W  e  n  t  w  orth 
not  only  had 
health  and 
good  habits 
but  had  a 
quick  and 
clear  insight 
into  machin- 
ery. He  in- 
vented or  im- 
proved many 
of  the  ma- 
chines, tools 
and  processes 
he  had  to  use 
in  his  business  and  thus  nearly  doubled 
his  profits. 

Mr.  Wentworth  next  took  on  the  mar- 
ble business  and  imported  and  worked 
about  all  the  foreign  arid  domestic  mar- 
bles, 300  men  being  employed  in  his 
yard.  He  kept  increasing  the  business 
until  it  became  the  largest  and  most  im- 
portant marble  works  in  Boston.  Even 
in  his  early  days  he  foresaw  the  develop- 
ment and  destiny  of  the  city  of  Boston, 


ARIOCH  WENTWORTH. 


and  rightly  judged  that  property  could 
not  decline  in  a  city  of  such  promise, 
and  already  the  literary  and  commercial 
metropolis  of  New  England.  And  so  he 
began  at  an  early  day  to  invest  in  real  es- 
tate in  Boston.  His  first  purchase  was  a 
$3,000  dwelling  house  and  he  subsequent- 
ly purchased  land  for  his  business  which 
then  covered  an  acre  of  ground. 

As  fast  as  his  money  accumulated  he 
invested  it  in 
real  estate 
and  held  and 
improved  it. 
He  has  never 
lost  faith  in 
real  estate 
and  today  he 
is  the^  largest 
real  estate 
holder  and 
pays  the  larg- 
est city  tax 
of  anyone  in 
Boston  who 
earned  his 
own  money. 
Mr.  Went- 
worth has  cir- 
cumnavigated 
the  globe. 
He  has 
crossed  the 
Atlantic  sev- 
eral times 
and  with  his 
family  has 
visited  the 
principal  con- 
tinental cities 
of  Europe. 
Fart  of  a  win- 
ter he  spent 

in  Egypt  going  up  the  Nile  and  visiting 
all  the  ruins  and  inspecting  the  antiqui- 
ties of  that  historic  land.  When  he  was 
over  eighty  years  of  age  he  started  with 
his  family,  five  in  all,  for  a  tour  of  the 
world,  via  San  Francisco,  Japan,  China 
and  the  principal  countries  and  cities  of 
Asia,  returning  via  the  Red  Sea  and  Suez 
Canal,  visiting  Rome  and  from  thence 
through  Europe  to  England,  sailing  from 
Liverpool  home.  Mr.  Wentworth  saw 


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nothing  in  his 'travels  to  compare  with 
our  own  country  which  he  terms  "  God's 
Country,"  and  declares  there  is  no  other 
like  it. 

Mr.  Wentworth  has  shown  by  his  ac- 
tions that  his  heart  is  alive  to  early  asso- 
c.iatigns  and  friends.  The  Wentworth 
Home  for  the  Aged,  erected  within  a 
rifle-shot  of  his  old  homestead  is  a  lasting 
monument  to  his  munificent  charity.  He 
has  donated  $30,000  to  this  purpose 
alone  and  has 
also  liberally 
endowed  out 
of  his  abun- 
dance  th'1 
C  hi  Idre  n's 
Home.  These 
institutions  re- 
ceive extend- 
ed notice  in 
another  part 
of  this  work. 

It  may  be 
truly  said  that 
Mr.  Went- 
worth is  a  ben- 
efactor of  his 
race.  He  is  a 
ready  giver  to 
those  private 
charities 
which  enlist  so 
deeply  the 
sympathies  of 
true  men.  He 
gives  cheerful- 
ly and  without 
oste  n  t  a  t  i  o  n 
and  this  has 
sometimes  led 
him  to  veil  a 
generosity  of 
character  and  a  tenderness  of  feeling  which 
are  among  his  most  striking  traits.  He  is 
one  of  the  firmest  of  friends,  and  one  of 
the  most  thoroughly  honest  and  upright 
of  men.  Well  may  we  be  proud  to  claim 
such  a  man  as  a  citizen  and  future  gener- 
ations will  remember  and  revere  the 
name  of  him  who  has  done  so  much  to 
ameliorate  the  sufferings  of  the  virtuous 
poor  and  solace  the  declining  years  of  our 
aged  and  impecunious  citizens. 


George  E.  Schultz. 

George  E.  Schultz  was  born  in  Alsace, 
Germany,  coming  to  this  country  when 
six  years  of  age.  Upon  completing  his 
education  he  entered  the  laboratory  of 
the  Eddystone  Print  Works  near  Phila- 
delphia and  learned  textile  printing  and 
coloring.  While  gaining  a  practical 
knowledge  of  the  business  he  studied 
chemistry  under  private  tuition  and  at 
the  Philadel- 
phia College 
of  Pharmacy. 
While  occu- 
pying a  re- 
sponsible po- 
sition at  Ed- 
dystone, he, 
in  1894,  ac- 
cepted the  ap- 
pointment of 
chemist  at 
the  Cocheco 
Print  Works 
and  was 
shortly  after- 
wards promo- 
ted to  the  po- 
sition of  col- 
orist. 

George  R. 
Smith,  M.D. 


GEORGE   E.  SCHULTZ. 


George  R. 
Smith,  M.  D., 
was  born  at 
Barnard,  Vt., 
July  7,  1859, 
the  son  of 
Rufus  B.  and 
Mary  J. 
Smith.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Gaysville,  Vt.,  and  prepared  for 
college  at  Goddard  Seminary,  Barre,  Vt. 
He  entered  Tufts  College,  class  of  '84 
and  studied  medicine  at  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College,  Chicago,  graduating  with 
the  class  of  '88,  and  receiving  his  degree 
of  M.  D.  from  that  institution.  Dr. 
Smith  began  the  practice  of  his  profes-ion 
in  Dover  in  June,  1888,  opening  an  office 
at  378  Central  Avenue,  but  upon  the 


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completion  of  the  Masonic  Temple  he 
removed  his  office  to 
the  present  handsome 
suite  of  rooms  in  that 
building,  where  he  has 
since  remained.  His 
patients  have  grown 
yearly  more  numerous, 
and  his  standing  among 
his  professional  asso- 
ciates has  been  an- 
nually enhanced.  In 
the  community  Dr. 
Smith  stands  high. 
He  is  a  member  of 
the  New  Hampshire 
Homoeopathic  Medi- 
cal Society,  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  Elec- 
tro-Ther  apeutics, 
Moses  Paul  Lodge,  A. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  St.  Paul 
Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  and  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias. 
His  time  has  been 


freely  given  in  reply  to  public  demands 
and  the  alleviation  of 
disease  and  suffering. 
Dr.  Smith  is  still  in 
the  prime  of  life  and 
for  him  the  future 
presents  i  n  s  p  i  r  in  g 
views  of  hope  crowned 
with  the  reward  ^that 
follows  faithful,  meri- 
torious work  in  any 
line  of  life. 


DR.  GEORGE  R.  SMITH. 


I.  B.  Williams 
&  Sons. 

In  their  line  of  pro- 
duction there  is  prob- 
ably no  other  concern 
in  the  country  so  well 
and  favorably  known, 
and  none  whose  pro- 
ducts are  in  more»  uni- 
versal use  and  demand 
throughout  the  United 
States,  Canada  and 


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DOVER  J 623- J 898 


Europe  than  I.  B.  Williams  &  Sons. 
Their  leather  belting,  strapping  and 
lace  leather  have  attained  a  world- 
wide reputation  and  the  various 
brands  of  the  firm  are  everywhere 
recognized  as  the  highest  standard 
of  quality. 

The  foundation  of  the  present 
business  was  laid  by  the  senior 
partner,  Isaac  B.  Williams,  in  1842. 
At  that  time  the  business  was  con- 
fined to  the  manufacture  of  belting 
for  the  Cocheco  Manufacturing  Co. 
and  the  workshops  of  the  concern 
were  located  in  the  Cocheco  Mills. 
In  1871  Frank  B.  Williams  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership  with  his  father 
and  the  firm  became  I.  B.  Williams 
&  Son.  From  its  inception  the  in- 
dustry prospered.  The  attention 
of  manufacturers  was  attracted  to 
the  superior  quality  of  belting 
turned  out  by  the  firm  and  the  de- 
mand for  their  products  became  so 
great  that  in  1874  it  became  neces- 


GEORGE  H.  WILLIAMS. 


FRANK  B.  WILLIAMS. 

sary  to  acquire  more  commodious 
premises  to  meet  the  demands  of 
the  trade.  A  large  and  valuable 
property  on  Orchard  Street  was  pur- 
chased and  was  added  to  and  re- 
modeled so  as  to  afford  the  desired 
facilities.  George  H.  Williams  was 
taken  into  partnership  in  1878,  the 
style  of  the  firm  then  becoming  as 
at  present,  I.  B.  Williams  &  Sons. 

In  1882  the  premises  were  found 
to  be  wholly  inadequate  for  the  ever 
increasing  output  and  the  factory 
was  torn  down  and  entirely  rebuilt 
on  a  much  larger  scale.  The  firm 
purchased  an  adjoining  property 
and  erected  a  substantial  four  story 
brick  building,  with  a  tower  five 
stories  high,  containing  elevators, 
stairways,  etc.  Ten  years  later,  in 
1892,  another  four  story  brick  build- 
ing was  added,  and  in  1896  this  was 
supplemented  by  another  two  story 
building  and  a  separate  boiler  house 
measuring  40  x  50  feet.  The  factory 
faces  on  Orchard  street,  with  an  ell, 


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having  a  frontage  of    100    feet   and   on 
Waldron  street  of  165  feet. 

The  motive  power  is  supplied  by  two 
200  horse  power  upright  boilers  and  one 
225  horse  power  Corliss  engine  thus  in- 
suring abundant  power  for  the  various 
machines  'operated.  The  first  floor  of 
the  factory  is  occupied  by  offices  and  the 
shipping  department,  on  Orchard  street. 
In  the  rear  of  the  same  is  the  modern 
machinery  for  the  tanning  of  lace  leather 
anrl  currying  of  leather.  The  second 
story  is  occupied  by  the  superintendent's 
office,  store  room  for  finished  lace  leather, 


the  new  Washington  light  and  is  steam 
heated  throughout.  Sanitation  and  ven- 
tilation are  carefully  looked  after  and 
each  room  is  lightsome  and  kept  in  ex- 
cellent order.  None  but  thoroughly 
skilled  mechanics  are  employed  in  all  de- 
partments. 

The  output  of  the  factory  is  as  follows  : 
1000  to  1 200  butts  weekly,  which  is 
manufactured  into  leather  belting.  Three 
tons  of  shoulders  daily,  which  are  curried 
and  worked  into  stock  for  Goodyear  in- 
ner soling,  saddle  flaps,  welting  leather 
and  strapping  and  from  1200  to  1500 


CURRYING  DEPARTMENT. 


lace  finishing  room,  belt  stretching  room, 
straightening  room,  and  rough  leather 
room.  The  entire  third  floor  of  the 
building  is  occupied  by  the  belting  and 
strapping  departments ;  the  fourth  floor 
by  the  lace  drying  rooms,  belting  and 
leather  stuffing  and  drying  rooms. 

The  mechanical  equipment  of  the  fac- 
tory is  of  the  highest  order.  Every  de- 
vice and  machine  looking  toward  perfec- 
tion in  the  production  of  leather  belting 
lace  leather,  Goodyear  inner  soling,  strap- 
ping, welting,  etc.,  is  utilized.  The  build- 
ing is  lighted  by  gas,  electricity  and  by 


hides  per  week  are  tanned  and  worked 
into  lace  leather.  In  January,  1883,  the 
firm  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
tanned  and  raw  hide  lace  leather  in  a 
small  way,  and  its  superiority  over  other 
makes  soon  became  apparent  by  the  in- 
creased demand.  Their  raw  hide  lace 
gave  such  good  satisfaction  the 
firm  decided  that  some  distinguishing 
mark  or  pattern  would  be  of  advantage 
and  adopted  the  trade  mark  "  Cocheco." 
They  speedily  began  to  feel  the  benefit 
of  this,  consumers  all  over  the  country 
called  for  Cocheco  lace,  and  their  trade 


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ROUGH  LEATHER  ROOM. 

commenced  to  double  from  year   to  year 
until  today  Cocheco  lace  has  the  widest 
and  best  reputation  of  any  raw  hide  lace 
on  the  market,  and  is  more  extensively 
used.     The  firm  now  makes  several  times 
as  much  lace  as  the  next  largest  concern 
in      the 
coun  try. 
In      addi- 
tion to  side 
lace    they 
m  a  nufac- 
ture      and 
sell   mil- 
lions   of 
feet  of  cut 
raw     hide 
lace  every 
year. 

TheCo- 
c  h  e  c  o 
Short  Lap 
belting  is 
u  n  e  x  - 
celled,  be- 
ing made 
from  pure 
white  oak 
bark 
tanned 


stock  and 
extra 
heavy. 
For  use  in 
co  1 1  o  n, 
woolen, 
paper, 
pulp  and 
saw  mills 
and  fo  r 
main  driv- 
ers it  has 
no  equal. 
The  next 
grade 
Short  Lap 
is  made 
from  the 
same  qual- 
ity stock 
only  a 
little 
lighter  in 
weight. 

Superior,  Defiance,  Buckeye,  Cairo. 
Special  Light  Double,  Light  Double 
and  Gilt  Edge  Solid  Round  Belting, 
constitute  the  other  grades  made  by  this 
firm,  with  one  exception,  Dynamo. 
This  last  mentioned  belt,  as  its  name  in- 


SECTION  OF  BELT  ROOM. 


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dicates,  is  for 
use  in  driving 
electric  light 
machinery  and 
is  of  special 
cons  truction, 
being  made  of 
the  choi  c  e  s  t 
pure  oak 
tanned  leather, 
thoroughly 
stretched, 
water-  proofed 
and  nothing 
but  center 
stock  is  used 
in  its  construc- 
t  i  o  n  .  This 
brand  of  belt- 
ing is  known 
all  over  the 
country  for  its 
superior  excel- 
lence in  dura- 
bility, steady  and  true  running  qualities. 
They  are  also  one  of  the  largest  manufac- 
turers of  Solid  Round  Belting  in  the  coun- 
try, the  goods  being  of  the  highest  quality. 
The  productions  of  the  factory  are 
sold  not  only  all  over  this  country  but  a 


SECTION  OF  BELT  ROOM. 


BELT  ROOM  LOOKING  SOUTH. 

considerable  export  business  is  done  with 
Europe,    Australia,    China,    and   Japan. 
The  firm  has  a  large  store  in  Chicago  for 
the  distribution  of  its  goods  throughout  the 
northwest,  also  a  smaller  one    at  Cleve- 
land, while  agencies  are  established  in  all 
the  i  m  p  o  r  - 
tant  cities  in 
the  Union.  A 
com  p  e  t  e  n  t 
corps  of  trav- 
e 1 i  n  g  sales- 
men are  em- 
ployed,cover- 
ingthe  north, 
east,    south 
and  west. 

No  similar 
house  in  the 
country  occu- 
pies a  more 
promising  po- 
sition in  the 
commerce  of 
the  country 
and  with  ev- 
e  r  y  advan- 
tage that 
large  facili- 
t  ie  s,  ample 


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resources  and  experienced  management 
can  providers  future  growth  and  advance- 
ment may  confidently  be  predicted  to  be 
fully  in  accord  with  its  past  record  of  use- 
fulness and  influence. 


Hon.  James  E.  Lothrop. 

James  Elbridge  Lothrop,  son  of  Daniel 
and  Sophia  (Home)  Lothrop  was  born  in 
Rochester  Nov.  30,  1826.  His  first 
American  ancestor,  on  his  father's  side, 
Mark  Lothrop,  was 
jounger  brother  of 
Rev.  John  Lothrop 
the  first  minister 
of  Scituate,  Mass., 
and  grandson  of 
John  Lowthorpe, 
of  L  o  w  t  h  o  r  p  e, 
Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land. Mark  was 
in  Salem,  Mass., 
in  1643,  but  re- 
moved to  Dux- 
bury,  and  thence 
to  Bridgewater  in 
1656,  where  he 
died  in  1686. 
His  grandson, 
Mark,  married 
Hannah  Alden,  a 
great-granddaugh- 
ter of  John  Alden, 
of  the  Mayflower, 
by  his  wife,  Pris- 
cilla  Mullins,  com- 
memorated in  his- 
tory and  in  Long- 
fellow's charming 
poem.  The  one 

who  said,  "  Why  not  speak  for  yourself, 
John?"  was  the  direct  ancestress  of 
James  E.  Lothrop.  On  the  maternal 
side,  Dr.  Lothrop  is  descended  from  Wil- 
liam Home,  of  Home's  Hill  in  Dover, 
who  held  his  exposed  position  in  the  In- 
dian wars,  and  whose  estate  has  been  in 
the  family  name  from  1662  until  the  pres- 
ent generation  ;  but  he  was  killed  in  the 
massacre  of  June  28,  1689.  Through 
the  Home  line,  also,  came  descent  from 
Rev.  Joseph  Hull^  minister  at  Durham  in 


Cambridge,  England  ;  from  John  Ham, 
of  Dover  ;  from  thejsmigran t  John  Heard, 
and  others  of  like  vigorous  stock.  It 
was  his^ jancestresS;  Elizabeth  .(Hull). 
Heard,  whom  the  old  historians  call  a 
"  brave  gentlewoman,"  held Jier  garrison- 
house,  the  frontier  fort  in  Dover  in  the 
Indian  wars,  and  successfully  defended  it 
in  the  massacre  of  June  28,  1689. 

Dr.  Lothrop  received  his  education  at 
the  Rochester  Academy,  and  at  Strafford 
Academy,  Dover,  and  taught  school  at 
the  age  of  sixteen. 
In  1843  he  took 
up  the  study  of 
medicine  with  his 
uncle,  Jeremiah 
Home,  M.D.,  at 
Fall  River,  and 
also  acquired  a 
practical  knowl- 
edge of  the  drug 
business  in  his 
uncle's  drug  store. 
At  the  age  of  nine- 
teen he  came  to 
Dover  and  en- 
gaged in  the  drug 
business,  subse- 
quently admitting 
his  brothers,  Dan- 
iel and  John  C., 
into  partnership, 
under  the  style  of 
D.  Lothrop  &  Co. 
Drug  stores  were 
opened  at  New- 
market, Meiedith 
V  i  1 1  a  ge,  Great 
Falls  and  Ames- 
bury  Mills,  Mass. 
These  were  afterwards  sold  and  the  busi- 
ness became  concentrated  in  Dover.  Dr. 
Lothrop  took  the  degree  of  M.  D.  at  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College  in  1848,  but  re- 
linquished his  practice  of  medicine  to 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  the  drug 
business.  So  largely  had  the  business 
grown  that  it  was  necessary  to  increase 
the  working  force  and  a  half  interest  in 
the  drug  store  was  conveyed  to  Mr. 
Alonzo  T.  Pinkham,  the  firm  name  be- 
coming Lothrop  &  Pinkham.  The  firm 


HON.  JAMES  E.  LOTHROP. 


1662,   a   graduate   at    the    university   o£    of  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.    next    engaged  in 


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the  clothing  business,  admitting  their 
father,  Daniel  Lothrop,  into  partnership, 
under  the  style  of  1).  Lothrop  &  Sons, 
and  established  branches  at  Rochester 
and  Great  Falls,  now  the  city  of  Somers- 
worth..  That  at  Rochester  was  sold  out 
and  the  firm  purchased  the  clothing  busi- 
ness of  Joshua  Varney  which  was  removed 
to  the  home  store  on  Franklin  square. 
The  death  of  Daniel  Lothrop,  senior, 
occurred  in  the  year  1872,  and  a 
brother,  M.  Henry  Lothrop  (at  one  time 
President  of  the  Dover  Common  Council), 
after  eight  years'  service  as  salesman,  in 
1877  took  one  half  interest  in  the  cloth- 
ing business,  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  retaining 
the  other  half.  Since  1870  they  have 
been  in  the  new,  lofty,  spacious  store 
which  forms  the  centre  of  Merrill's  block. 
In  1880,  M.  Henry  Lothrop  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Boston  department  and  the 
firm  entered  into  partnership  with  Charles 
H.  Farnham  &  Co.,  who  took  one  third 
interest  in  the  clothing  business,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Lothrops,  Farnham  & 
Co. 

To  the  Dover  business  was  also  added 
in  1873  another  department,  consisting 
of  musical  instruments,  music,  pianos  and 
organs,  sewing  machines  and  musical 
merchandise,  which  has  since  grown  to 
immense  proportions,  being  now  one  of 
the  largest  houses  of  the  kind  in  the  state. 

The  name  of  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  has 
even  more  than  a  national  reputation. 
In  1850  they  purchased  the  stock  of 
books  held  by  Elijah  Wadleigh  and  began 
business  as  booksellers.  In  1852  they 
purchased  the  entire  building.  In  addi- 
tion to  their  retail  business  they  built  up 
a  good  jobbing  trade,  and  did  some  pub- 
lishing. In  a  few  years  they  sold  the 
Dover  book  business  and  Daniel  Lothrop 
went  to  Boston  and  opened  a  store — D^ 
Lothrop  &  Co. — at  Cornhill.  This  was  a 
success  and  in  1876  they  took  the  whole 
four  story  double  store  on  Franklin  street 
corner  of  Hawley  and  fitted  it  elegantly. 
The  great  success  of  their  publishing 
work  necessitated  the  leasing  of  a  five- 
story  building  on  Purchase  street  for 
manufacturing  purposes. 

The  sudden  decease  of  Daniel  Lothrop 
in  1892  left  the  whole  control  and  man- 


agement of  the  immense  publishing  busi- 
ness in  the  hands  of  Dr.  J.  E.  Lothrop 
and  Mrs.  Daniel  Lothrop,  and  it  was  ably 
conducted  by  them  for  about  two  years. 
In  the  meantime  the  whole  business  and 
property  of  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  had  been 
purchased  by  Dr.  J.  E.  Lothrop,  includ- 
ing the  drug  and  music  stores  and  real 
estate  (John  C.  Lothrop  afterwards  re- 
purchasing the  property  at  Great  Falls). 
These  were  of  such  magnitude  and  im- 
portance that  with  his  increasing  years 
Dr.  Lothrop  deemed  it  wise,  even  with 
great  pecuniary  sacrifice  to  reorganize  the 
D.  Lothrop  Co.  corporation,  and  with  the 
consent  and  assistance  of  Mrs.  Daniel 
Lothrop  and  John  C.  Lothrop  a  new  cor- 
poration was  established  in  1894  under 
the  style  of  the  Lothrop  Publishing  Co., 
with  the  condition  that  it  should  conduct 
business  upon  the  same  principles  and 
carry  out  the  purpose  and  designs  of  the 
founders.  By  adopting  this  course  he 
has  been  relieved  of  the  enormous  labor 
attending  the  personal  conduct  of  the 
Boston  business  and  is  enabled  to  add 
greater  force  and  vigor  to  all  his  Dover 
enterprises. 

Dr.  Lothrop  has  in  addition  to  his 
business  the  entire  care  of  real  estate, 
comprising  many  stores  and  tenements, 
including  the  Merrill  estate.  He  has 
been  a  director  in  the  Cochecho  Na- 
tional bank  from  1858,  was  chosen 
Vice-President  in  1873,  and  has  been  its 
President  since  1876.  In  1871  he  be- 
came a  director  in  the  Cocheco  Aqueduct 
Association,  its  clerk  in  1872,  and  from 
1875  its  president.  He  was  also  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Portsmouth  and  Dover  R.  R., 
in  the  Eliot  Bridge  Company,  and  has 
been  President  of  the  Dover  Board  of 
Trade.  In  1872,  Dr.  Lothrop  represent- 
ed the  city  in  the  Legislature  and  served 
two  terms,  1883-1884,  as  Mayor  of  the 
city.  He  married  Mary  E.,  daughter  of 
the  late  Joseph  Morrill.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican,  and  his  religious  persua- 
sion is  that  of  a  Methodist. 

In  promoting  all  manufacturing  and 
industrial  interests  he  has  always  taken  a 
most  prominent,  active,  unselfish  and 
successful  part,  and  the  general  manufac- 
turing and  mercantile  interests  of  the 


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city  and  state  have  been  elevated  and 
held  at  a  higher  standard  by  his  indomi- 
table energy,  sterling  integrity,  untiring 
and  persistent  efforts  and  constant  devo- 
tion to  the  public  welfare.  As  a  financier 
his  judgment  has  been  sound  and  his 
views  of  the  most  healthy  character.  As 
chief  magistrate  of  the  city  and  in  the 
legislature  his  influence  was  ever  used  in 
behalf  of  progressive  enterprise  and  ju- 
dicious expenditure.  It  is  to  his  en- 
deavors that  the  Dover  Public  Library 


music  trade,  none  enjoy  a  higher  leputa- 
tion  than  the  Oliver  Ditson  Company  of 
Boston.  Dr.  J.  E.  Lothrop  has  for  several 
years  been  associated  with  this  company 
in  the  sale  of  pianos,  in  New  Hampshire 
and  Massachusetts,  in  connection  with  his 
large  music  store.  The  wareiooms  of 
J.  E.  Lothrop  &  Co.  are  in  the  Mot  rill 
block  and  are  conveniently  appointed. 
They  contain  a  complete  assortment  of 
pianos  and  organs  and  an  excellent  line 
of  mandolins,  banjos,  guitars,  violins, 


CLOTHING  DEPARTMENT,  LOTHROPS,  FARNHAM  &  CO. 


owes  its  origin.  Now  in  his  seventy- 
second  year,  after  fifty-three  years  de- 
voted to  business,  he  is  active  in  body, 
clear  and  vigorous  in  mind  and  success- 
fully conducting  enterprises  in  this  city, 
Somersworth  and  Rochester  of  a  magni- 
tude and  importance,  the  labors  and  re- 
sponsibilities of  which  few  even  younger 
men  would  be  willing  to  assume. 


James  E.  Lothrop  &  Co. 

Of  those  who  devote   attention   to  the 


music  boxes,  reed  instruments  and  in  fact 
everything  usually  associated  with  a  first 
class  music  store.  A  large  stock  of  musi- 
cal merchandise  is  always  to  be  found 
here,  including  sheet  music,  music  books 
and  musical  instrument  fittings.  All  the 
latest  popular  songs  are  put  on  sale  as 
soon  as  published.  The  celebrated  But- 
terick's  patterns  are  also  kept  in  stock. 
In  the  department  of  second  hand  pianos 
and  organs  may  be  found  an  excellent 
and  varied  lot  of  second  hand  instru- 
ments, which  will  either  be  sold  at  mod- 


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erate  prices  or  rented  subject  to  purchase. 
In  the  sewing  machine  department  will 
be  found  all  the  standard  makes  of  new 
and  second  hand  machines,  containing 
all  the  latest  styles  and  most  modern  im- 
provements. On  account  of  taking  other 
machines  in  exchange  for  the  celebrated 
New  Home,  a  large  number  of  various 
makes  are  constantly  for  sale  at  merely 
nominal  prices.  The  trade  of  the  house 
is  large  and  extends  generally  throughout 
this  state  and  Massachusetts  and  patrons 


Daniel  Lothrop  &  Sons  in  1855  an<^  con- 
tinued so  until  1872  when,  upon  the  death 
of  Daniel  Lothrop,  Senior,  the  name  was 
changed  to  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  In  1883, 
Charles  H.  Farnham  became  a  partner,  the 
style  becoming  Lothrops,  Farnham  &  Co. 
The  premises  occupy  a  splendid  position 
in  the  Morrill  block,  two  handsome  stores 
being  utilized  for  the  purposes  of  the  busi- 
ness. Branches  are  maintained  at  Roch- 
ester and  Somersworth.  The  Rochester 
store  was  opened  in  April,  1886,  and  the 


SHOE  DEPARTMENT,  LOTHROPS,  FARNHAM  &.  CO. 


are  assured  of  receiving  every  advantage 
of  quality  and  price  when  dealing  with 
this  representative  concern. 


Lothrops,  Farnham  &  Co. 

The  house  of  Lothrops,  Farnham  &  Co. 
has  contributed  in  a  most  important  way 
to  the  material  prosperity  of  Dover.  Its 
resources  are  ample  and  it  leads  in  its  line 
of  trade  throughout  a  large  amount  of  ter- 
ritory. The  business  was  established  by 
Dr.  James  E7  Lothrop  under  the  name  of 


Somersworth  store  in  Aug.,  1895.  In  all 
thirty-one  courteous  and  thoroughly  com- 
petent salesmen  are  employed.  They  carry 
at  all  times  a  vast  and  seasonable  stock  of 
clothing  in  all  grades,  stylish  in  cut,  of  ex- 
cellent make  and  finish,  neat,  substantial, 
and  sold  at  remarkably  low  prices.  In 
the  hat  and  furnishing  goods  department 
the  display  is  always  a  tempting  one, 
comprising  all  that  is  desirable  in  shirts, 
collars,  cuffs,  neckwear,  underwear,  hos- 
iery, gloves,  bags,  hats,  caps,  etc.  The 
shoe  department  is  replete  with  all  the 


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latest  standard  makes  of  shoes  for  both 
sexes  and  a  large  stock  of  children's  and 
misses'  footwear  is  kept  on  hand.  This 
department  will  bear  favorable  compari- 
son with  any  store  of  the  kind  in  New 
England,  being  elegantly  furnished  and 
carpeted.  ,  It  is  safe  to  assert  that  a  more 
comprehensive,  elegant  or  desirable  as- 
sortment of  goods  appropriate  to  the  va- 
rious departments  cannot  be  found  in  the 
state.  The  store  itself  is  the  handsomest 
and  one  of  the  largest  in  the  city,  perfect- 


Somersworth   and    Boston,    pushing  with 
vigor  the  interests  of  the  firm. 


Lothrops  &  Pinkham. 

For  over  half  a  century  the  name  of 
Dr.  Lothrop  has  been  associated  with  the 
drug  business  in  Dover.  It  was  he  who, 
in  1845,  established  the  concern  from 
which  has  sprung  the  present  large  busi- 
ness. The  firm  at  its  inception  was  D. 
Lothrop  &  Co.,  but  in  1868  it  became 


FURNISHING  GOODS  DEPARTMENT,  LOTHROPS,  FARNHAM  &  CO. 


ly  lighted  and  ventilated  and  is  a  pleasant 
place  to  visit.  Polite  and  obliging  sales- 
men give  the  same  attention  to  rich  and 
poor  alike  and  the  prices  of  all  the  goods 
are  uniformly  low.  Built  upon  a  solid 
foundation  with  no  misrepresentation 
the  firm  has  worthily  earned  the  reputa- 
tion of  reliable  outfitters  and  hopes  to 
still  further  augment  its  trade  by  con- 
stantly studying  the  wants  of  their  pat- 
rons. Mr.  Farnham  is  the  active  partner 
and  manages  the  entire  business.  He 
spends  one  day  each  week  in  Rochester, 


necessary  to  add  to  the  working  force 
and  Mr.  Alonzo  T.  Pinkham  was  given  a 
half  interest.  From  the  very  start  the 
business  was  a  success.  In  1870  the 
store,  which  is  located  in  the  Morrill 
block,  was  enlarged  and  now  measures 
25  x  75  feet  with  about  1000  feet  of 
cellar  space.  In  compliance  with  the 
popular  demand  the  firm  added  a  wall 
paper  department  which  has  become  a 
leading  feature  of  the  house.  The  store 
is  well  and  tastefully  fitted  up  with  large 
plate-glass  show  cases  and  cabinets,  and 


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complete  stocks  are  carried  of  the  freshest 
and  purest  drugs  and  chemicals,  articles 
for  the  toilet,  fancy 
goods,  soaps  and  per- 
fumes of  domestic  and 
foreign  manufacture, 
cigars,  druggists'  sun- 
dries, etc.  A  specialty 
is  made  of  compound- 
ing family  recipes  and 
physicians'  prescrip- 
tions with  accuracy  and 
care,  only  the  purest 
drugs  being  used. 
Pure  soda  and  mineral 
waters  are  dispensed, 
all  syrups  being  the 
choicest  the  market 
affords.  Mr.  Pinkham 
is  a  thoroughly  expert 
pharmacist  and  is  held 
in  high  esteem  by  his 
fellow  professionals 
and  the  community  at 
large.  Several  assist- 
ants are  employed  and 
patrons  are  at  all  times 
assured  of  receiving  courteous  and  prompt 
attention.  In  1888  the  Wheeler  store  at 
the  corner  of  Central  avenue  and  Silver 


it  was  moved  across  the  street  into  a 
building  especially  constructed  for  it, 
where  under  the  effi- 
cient management  of 
Mr.  Geo.  F.  McFar- 
land  a  successful  busi- 
ness has  been  estab- 
lished. 


AUREN  W.  HAYES. 


A.  W.  Hayes, 

Mr.  A.  W.  Hayes 
was  born  in  South 
Newmarket  in  1852 
and  as  a  boy  attended 
the  district  school  of 
his  native  town.  He 
came  to  Dover  in  1868 
and  entered  the  em- 
ployment of  James  A. 
Home  (jeweler),  in 
September,  1869,  to 
learn  the  watchmaking 
business,  remaining 
until  February,  1874. 
During  this  period  he 
had  worked  assiduous- 
ly to  master  his  chosen  calling  m[  which 
he  soon  became  an  expert,  and  upon 
leaving  Mr.  Home  he  accepted  employ- 


A.  W.  HAYES'  JEWELRY  STORE. 


street,  was  purchased  and  thoroughly  re- 
fitted and  stocked  as  a  modem  pharmacy, 
meeting  with  such  success  that  in  1894 


ment  as  watchmaker  with  the  large  and 
well  known  jewelry  firm  of  Charles  W. 
Kennard  &  Co.  of  Boston,  where  he  re- 


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mained  for 'ten  years.  In  1884  he  re- 
turned to  Dover  and  purchased  the  jew- 
elry business  conducted  by  C.  S.  Kingman 
at  424  Central  avenue.  The  store  is  taste- 
fully appointed,  fitted  with  handsome 
plate-glass  show  windows  and  possesses 
every  facility  for  displaying  to  the  best 
advantage  the  magnificent  and  valuable 
stock.  This  embraces  fine  American  and 
European  watches,  diamonds  and  precious 
stones,  both  mounted  and  loose,  jewelry, 
sterling  silver  and  silver  plate,  clocks, 
bronzes,  art  novelties,  and  many  articles 
of  use  and  ornament,  all  of  which  have 


quality.  Mr.  Hayes  is  most  popular  with 
his  fellow  citizens  and  is  a  member  of 
Moses  Paul  Lodge  of  Masons  and  of 
Wecohamet  Lodge,  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
He  was  also  parish  clerk  of  the  Peirce 
Memorial  church  three  years.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  jewelry  business  Mr.  Hayes 
makes  a  specialty  of  handling  standard 
makes  of  bicycles,  including  the  celebra- 
ted Sterling  and  Orient  wheels.  In  this 
department  a  large  business  is  done  and 
every  facility  is  afforded  patrons  to  ac- 
quire a  wheel  that  will  stand  the  test  of 
time. 


BYRON   F.  HAYES'  STORE. 


been  selected  with  a  refined  taste  and 
judgment  that  meet  with  the  approval  of 
all  customers.  A  watch  and  jewelry  re- 
pairing department  is  among  the  facilities 
of  the  house,  and  the  most  costly  watch 
may  be  confidently  left  here  with  the  as- 
surance that  it  will  be  returned  in  perfect 
running  order.  Mr.  Hayes  has  devoted 
a  lifetime  to  the  jewelry  business,  is  prac- 
tically proficient  in  all  its  details,  and  is 
fully  conversant  with  the  requirements  of 
patrons.  He  is  progressive  in  his  methods 
to  secure  the  choicest  goods  and  supply 
them  at  as  low  prices  as  is  consistent  with 


Byron  F.  Hayes*  I 

This  house  was  originally  founded  by 
IraW.  Nute  &  Co.  in  1872.  In  iS^y 
Mr^JByroiL JL.  Hayes  became  manager 
and  in  1887  entered  the  firm  as  a  partner, 
the  style  being  changed  to  Nute  &  Hayes. 
Mr.  Hayes  continued  as  the  managing 
partner  of  the  firm  until  Mr.  Nute's  death 
in  March,  1896.  Three  months  later  he 
acquired  the  business  and  has  since  con- 
ducted it  under  his  own  name.  The 
store  is  located  in  the  Merrill  block  and 
has  ample  accommodation  for  the  recep- 


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tion  of  customers  and  for  displaying  the 
large  and  costly  stock  which  is  always  kept 
on  hand.  This  embraces  everything  in 
the  way  of  staple  and  fancy  dry  goods  and 
notions,  ladies'  and  children's  furnishings, 
underwear,  hosiery,  gloves,  corsets,  skirts, 
waists,  ladies',  misses'  and  children's  gar- 
ments and  everything  associated  with  a 
first  class  store  of  the  kind.  A  specialty  is 
made  of  fine  imported  dress  goods,  silks, 
velvets,  cloaks,  capes  and  suits,  all  of  the 
latest  styles  and  fashion.  The  house  caters 
to  no  particular  class,  but  provides  for  all 
and  quotes  prices  which  will  compare  fa- 
vorably with  any  similar  concern  in  the 


BYRON   F.  HAYES. 

large  cities.  All  goods  are  carefully  se- 
lected and  are  the  products  of  the  leading 
manufacturers  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Hayes  is  a  native  of  Milton,  where 
he  was  born  Nov.  30,  1854,  coming  to 
Dover  in  1872  and  entering  the  employ- 
ment of  Ira  VV.  Nute  &  Co.  He  is  con- 
versant with  the  dry  goods  business  in 
all  its  details  and  has  conducted  the  af- 
fairs of  his  house  with  judgment  and 
vigor,  advancing  the  interests  of  his  cus- 
tomers in  every  legitimate  manner,  and 
at  the  same  time  developing  a  business 
that  is  most  creditable.  He  is  a  member 


of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  and  of  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum. Mr.  Hayes  was  married  Novem- 
ber 30,  1887,  to  Miss  Mary  F.  White- 
house  of  this  city  and  has  a  charming 
residence  at  28  Mount  Vernon  street. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church 
and  of  the  Official  Board  of  that  body. 


Daniel  H.  Wendell. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
Dover  July  25,  1814,  and  resided  in  this 
city  during  a  long  and  useful  life,  depart- 
ing on  Dec.  26,  1895.  Mr.  Wendell's 
ancestry  dates  back  to  1640  when  Evart 
Jansen  Wendell  emigrated  from  Germany 
to  this  country  and  settled  in  Albany,  N. 
Y.  This  ancestor  had  three  sons,  Abra- 
ham, Isaac  and  Jacob.  One  of  these 
remained  in  Albany,  another  removed  to 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  a  third  to  Boston. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  came  from  the 
Boston  branch,  and  numbered  among  his 
relationships  Wendell  Phillips  and  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.  Mr.  Wendell's  occupa- 
tion was  principally  that  of  insurance  agent 
and  manager  of  real  estate,  and  in  this  field 
he  built  up  a  large  and  prosperous  business. 
He  was  also  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Insur- 
ance Commissioner  and  member  of  the 
Legislature  prior  to  the  city  charter. 

Mr.  Wendell  was  married  on  Sept.  16, 
1837,  to  Huldah  Jenness,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Solomon  Jenness.  Of  their  chil- 
dren, three  lived  to  maturity,  one  son 
and  two  daughters.  The  son,  D.  A. 
Wendell,  M.  D.,  died  in  1871,  from  a 
disease  contracted  in  the  civil  war, 
throughout  which  he  served  as  an  assis- 
tant surgeon.  One  daughter,  Ellen  E., 
died  in  1874,  while  the  remaining  daugh- 
ter, Caroline  R.,  survives. 

Mrs.  Wendell,  the  wife  and  mother, 
was  a  woman  of  great  intellectuality,  with 
a  strong  grasp  of  affairs,  and  was  always 
intent  on  doing  the  utmost  possible  good 
in  her  journey  through  life.  Very  philan- 
thropic, her  charities  were  many  and  va- 
ried. Her  death  in  1885  was  a  sad  blow 
to  her  family  and  friends.  Miss  Caroline 
R.  Wendell,  the  surviving  daughter,  has 
been  President  of  the  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  since  1892,  and  pre- 
vious to  that  time  for  thirteen  years  was 


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secretary  of  the  same  institution.  She  is 
also  connected  with  several  other  philan- 
thropic institutions  of  a  similar  character. 
Miss  Wendell's  efforts  in  behalf  of  temper- 
ance and  purity  have  been  very  marked 
and  she  is  an  active  influence  for  good  in 
her  chosen  calling. 

Mr.  Wendell  may  be  said  to  have 
grown  up  with  Dover.  He  was  familiar 
with  its  scenes  from  early  boyhood  and 
his  reminiscences  <  f  old  Dover  were  the 
delight  of 
family  and 
friends.  He 
could  relate 
by  the  hour 
the  various 
changes  time 
has  wrought 
in  the  physi- 
cal aspects  of 
this  ancient 
town  and  his 
remembrance 
of  occurren- 
ces and  men 
of  60  to  70 
years  ago  was 
very  vivid. 

He  was  a 
man  of 
marked  indi- 
viduality, with 
firm  convic- 
tions and  the 
co  u  r  a  g  e  to 
express  them. 
Perhaps  the 
most  notable 
feature  of  his 
life,  however, 
was  his  high 
regard  for  in- 
tegrity. He  was  a  practical  example  of 
the  fact  that  business  can  be  conducted 
successfully  and  with  honor.  His  benev- 
olence was  large  but  discriminating  and 
much  of  it  found  its  way  through  the 
hands  of  his  family  in  the  upbuilding  of 
the  cause  of  temperance  and  the  rights 
of  woman.  His  bearing  upon  the  street 
was  striking  and  attractive.  Courteous 
in  demeanor  with  lithe  step  and  graceful 
yet  dignified  carriage,  he  reminded  one 


of  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school. 
Intensely  devoted  to  his  family,  kindly 
in  his  nature,  with  strong  religious  con- 
victions, he  has  passed  away  with  a  firm 
belief  that  God  had  a  strong  hold  upon 
him  and  the  future,  and  that  He  would 
adjust  all  things  well. 


DANIEL   H.   WENDELL. 


Charles  L.  Howe* 

Charles  L.  Howe  belongs  to  one  of 
the  oldest 
and  most 
honored  fam- 
ilies of  New 
England.  He 
is  a  son  of 
the  late  Dr. 
A.  W.  Howe 
whose  mother 
was  sister  to 
Ex-  Governor 
Leyj_JVood- 
bury  of  New 
H  a  m  p  s  hire, 
and  is  a  direct 
d  e  s  c  e  ndant 
on  the  mater- 
nal side  of 
President 
Dunster,  the 
first  president 
of  Harvard 
College,  ap- 
point e  d  in 
1638.  It  was 
in  President 
Dunster 's 
house  that 
the  first  print- 
ing press  used 
in  the  West- 
ern h  e  m  i  - 
sphere  was  set  up,  being  used  in  those 
early  days  to  print  the  college  pamphlets. 
Mr.  Howe's  love  for  flowers  began  in 
his  early  childhood,  and  eveu  then  he 
was  the  proud  possessor  of  lovely  plants. 
He  embarked  in  the  nursery  business 
when  he  was  quite  young,  the  present 
being  the  third  set  of  greenhouses  he 
has  owned.  Mr.  Howe  sold  out  his  busi- 
ness in  Nashua  in  1891  and  came  to 
Dover,  having  purchased  the  site  until 


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then  occupied  by  Henry  Johnson,  whose 
greenhouses  had  been  entirely  destroyed 
by  fire.  Mr.  Howe  rebuilt  them  on  a 
larger  and  more  elaborate  plan  and  two 
years  later  upon  his  marriage  to  Miss 
Nellie  A.  Vittum,  daughter  of  Mr.  B.  F. 
Vittum,  he  erected  his  present  fine  resi- 
dence adjoining  the  conservatories. 

The  entire  plant  has  been  constantly 
enlarged  and  improved  until  it  is  today 
the  largest  establishment  of  its  kind  in 
the  state.  There  are  twelve  large  glass- 
houses covering  an  area  of  nearly  an 
acre  of  ground,  the  entire  nursery  occu- 
pying over  five  acres.  The  nurseries  are 
on  the  slope  of  Garrison  Hill  facing  the 
south  and  are  particularly  well  adapted 


tablished  under  the  style  of  Tilton  & 
Hanson,  remained  so  until  March  last 
when  Mr.  Frank  W.  Hanson  became 
the  sole  proprietor.  The  salesrooms 
are  elegantly  and  attractively  appointed 
and  the  stock  carried  embraces  all  the 
most  stylish  goods  of  both  home  and  for- 
eign production  required  by  gentlemen, 
and  includes  fine  neckwear,  collars,  dress 
and  negligee  shirts  and  all  of  the  many 
indispensable  articles  which  make  up  the 
wardrobe  of  a  well-dressed  and  refined 
man.  While  Mr.  Hanson  has  always 
made  it  a  point  to  provide  all  the  latest 
novelties  and  goods  of  the  kind  in  the 
market  for  the  most  exacting  and  dis- 
criminating customers,  he  has  with  com- 


CHARLE8  L.  HOWE'S  NURSERY. 


to  the  requirements  of  the  business. 
Every  description  of  ornamental  trees 
and  flowering  shrubs  are  cultivated  and  in 
the  greenhouses  the  most  exquisite  and 
delicate  flowers  are  grown  the  year  round. 
Mr.  Howe  makes  a  specialty  of  floral  de- 
signs for  weddings  and  funerals,  his  trade 
extending  throughout  all  eastern  New 
England.  In  the  summer  fifteen  garden- 
ers are  employed,  including  one  of  the 
most  expert  landscape  gardeners  in  New 
England.  Six  delivery  teams  are  neces- 
sary to  distribute  the  products  grown. 


Frank  W.  Hanson. 
The    clothing    business    originally    es- 


mendable  enterprise  provided  for  the  re- 
quirements of  the  masses,  by  carrying  a 
complete  stock  of  medium  grade  goods 
at  popular  prices.  A  specialty  is  made 
of  gentlemen's,  youths'  and  juvenile 
clothing  which  cannot  be  surpassed  for 
excellence  both  as  to  style  and  quality. 
Those  desiring  custom-made  garments 
can  have  their  needs  attended  to  prompt- 
ly and  have  a  wide  range  of  materials  from 
which  to  select.  All  goods  are  procured 
direct  from  the  manufacturers  and  have 
a  reputation  for  novelty,  variety,  high 
character  and  tasteful  selection,  while  the 
prices  are  based  on  liberal  and  fair  dealing 
methods.  The  premises  are  centrally  lo- 
cated in  the  Masonic  Temple,  the  store 


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running   from  Central  avenue  to  Locust 

street,    on   both  of  which   thoroughfares 

there   are     entrances. 

The   trade   of    the 

house,    while     largely 

among  the  citizens  of 

Dover,  is  by  no  means 

wholly     confined     to 

this  city,  but  extends 

to      the     surrounding 

cities  and  towns. 

Mr.  Hanson  was 
born  August  ist,  1865, 
at  Charlestown,  this 
state,  and  came  to 
D  o  ve  r  when  three 
years  old.  He  re- 
ceived his  education 
at  the  public  schools 
and  afterwards  gradu- 
ated from  the  Bryant 
&  Stratton  Commer- 
cial School,  Boston. 
Altogether  he  has 
spent  fourteen  years 
in  the  clothing  and 


Farnham  &  Co.  Mr.  Hanson  is  progress- 
ive and  enterprising  and  is  ably  assisted 
in  his  business  by  a 
competent  and  cour- 
teous staff  of  assistants. 


FRANK   W.   HANSON. 


J.  H.  Randlett. 

The  carriage  business 
founded  by  Mr.  Rand- 
lett in  1864  and  its 
subsequent  prosperous 
development  has  been 
commensurate  with 
the  enterprising  activ- 
ity and  superior  skill 
which  have  ever  char- 
acterized its  manage- 
ment. Mr.  Randlett 
is  a  native  of  Lee,  and 
in  the  early  fifties  went 
to  California  where  he 
remained  seven  years. 
Upon  his  return  to  the 
east  he  engaged  in 
business  in  Newmar- 


INTERIOR  FRANK  W.  HANSON'S  STORE- 


furnishing  business,    ten  of  which   were 
passed  in  the    employment  of  Lothrop, 


ket,  coming  to  Dover  to  found  the  present 
business  in  1864.     At  that  time  the  prem- 


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149 


ises  were  located  on  Locust  street,  but 
the  ever  increasing  volume  of  business 
demanded  larger 
premises  and  facilities 
and  two  years  later 
the  present  commodi- 
ous quarters  in  the  old 
Belleview  Hall  on  Cen- 
tral avenue  were  ac- 
quired and  remodeled 
to  suit  the  require- 
ments of  the  business. 
Mr.  Randlett  is  an  ex- 
pert in  all  the  branches 
of  his  vocation  of  a 
carriagemaker  and  as 
he  personally  over- 
sees all  the  labors  of 
his  assistants  he  is  en- 
abled to  secure  the 
most  satisfactory  re- 
sults. The  factory  is 
eligibly  located  and  is 
equipped  with  all  the 
necessary  tools  and  ap- 
pliances that  can  con- 
tribute to  the  produc- 
tion of  the  most  effi- 


are  unexcelled  for  strength,  durability, 
soundness  of  every  individual  part,  ease 
of  draught,  fineness  o 
finish  and  beauty  of 
appearance.  A  ful 
stock  is  carried,  special 
attention  is  given  to 
order  work  and  the 
prices  are  as  low  as  is 
compatible  with  the 
highest  class  of  mate- 
rials and  workmanship. 
The  trade  of  the  house 
is  throughout  New 
England  principally, 
but  orders  are  con- 
stantly received  from 
every  part  of  the 
Union.  Mr.  Randlett 
has  been  elected  twice 
as  representative,  serv- 
ing two  terms  in  the 
legislature  and  also  two 
years  in  the  Com- 
mon Council. 


J.  H.  RANDLETT. 


Alfred  Chase  Faye. 


cient,  stylish  and  reliable  work.     Thirty          Mr.  Faye  was  chosen  to  his  present  po- 
highly  skilled  mechanics  are  employed  in      sition  of  principal    of   the    Dover    High 


the  several 
departments, 
and  the  range 
of  production 
embraces  fine 
carriages  of 
every  descrip- 
tion, wagons 
and  sleighs. 
These  are  all 
constructed 
of  the  best 
and  most 
thoroughly 
seasoned 
woods  and 
the  standard 
makes  of 
steel  and  iron, 
while  the  up- 
h  o  1  s  t  e  ring, 
trimming, 
painting  and  general  finish  could  not  be 


RANDLETT'8  CARRIAGE  FACTORY 


school  from 
among  a 
large  list  of 
worthy  can- 
didates two 
years  ago, 
coming  here 
from  Chill  i- 
cothe,  Ohio. 
From  the 
first,  the  in- 
terest of  the 
new  princi- 
pal in  the 
school  and 
in  the  city 
has  been 
deep  and 
sincere.  He 
is  a  thorough 
educator  and 
to  his  credit 
may  be  placed  a  great  portion  of  the 


surpassed  for  style  and  elegance.     They      praise  for  the  high  standing  enjoyed  by 


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this  time-honored  institution  during  his 
incumbency  of  the  office.  Mr.  Faye  was 
born  in  Natick,  Mass.,  April  4,  1867,  and 
has  taught  schooTsmce  he  was  seventeen 
years  of  age.  Among  the  places  where  he 
has  led  the  thought  of  youth  are  Marion, 
Wrentham  and  Quincy,  Mass.  He  then 
entered  Harvard  college,  where  his  stand- 
ing as  a 'student  was  very  high  and  he 
graduated  with  honor.  Upon  leaving 
college  the  celebrated  Lawrenceville 
school  of  Lawrenceville,  N.  ].,  made  him 
a  tempting  offer 
and  he  remained 
at  that  institute 
for  one  year,  from 
thence  going  to 
Chillicothe,  Ohio. 
He  spent  two 
years  there  and 
it  speaks  well  for 
the  appreciation 
and  esteem  in 
which  he  was  held 
that  last  year  he 
was  offered  the 
sup  erintendency 
of  the  Chillicothe 
public  schools. 
He  pr  ef  e  r  red, 
however,  to  re- 
main in  Dover  and 
fortunate  indeed 
was  the  city  to 
retain  in  her  ser- 
vice this  able  ed- 
ucator. Mr.  Faye 
was  also  superin- 
tendent of  the 
Sudbury,  Mass., 
public  schools. 

The  principals  of  our  High  school  have 
always  been  men  of  rare  intelligence  and 
possessed  of  more  than  usual  educa- 
tional abilities,  able  to  impart  instruction 
to  our  youth  in  such  manner  that  they 
will  retain  the  knowledge  gained.  Mr. 
Faye  is  no  exception  to  the  rule  and  his 
success  and  pleasing  popularity  with  his 
pupils  proves  that  his  selection  to  this 
important  position  was  a  wise  one.  There 
are  at  present  from  180  to  190  pupils  of 
both  sexes  attending  the  school  and  two 
male  and  three  female  instructors  are  em- 


ployed under  Mr.  Faye's  able  guidance. 


ALFRED  CHASE  FAYE 


John  B.  Stevens* 

Early  in  the  century,  John  B.  Stevens, 
senior,  made  Dover  his  permanent  resi- 
dence. He  was  of  that  ardent  band  of 
Dover  abolitionists  so  much  in  evidence 
fifty  years  ago.  His  eldest  son,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Dover 
May  29,  1836.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Dover  High  School,  SouthJ3erwick  Acad- 
emy, Franklin 
TTcademy,  New 
Hampton  Literary 
Institute,  and  Co- 
mer's Commercial 
School.  He  taught 
school  for  a  short 
time  in  1856.  He 
has  always  lived  in 
Dover,  except  dur- 
ing a  short  resi- 
deuce  in  New 
York.  From  1864 
to  1894  he  was 
City  Clerk  of  Do- 
ver. In  1865  he 
was  City  Treasurer. 
He  succeeded  the 
Hon.  Jeremiah 
Smith,  as  Trustee 
of  the  Dover  Pub- 
lic Library  in  1886 
and  acted  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  Trus- 
tees for  four  years. 
For  many  years 
he  was  prominent- 
ly identified  with 
the  public  school 
system  of  this  city,  being  successively  a 
member  of  the  Prudential  Committee  of 
District  No.  2 ;  of  the  Superintending 
School  Committee  of  the  city;  of  the 
Board  of  Education,  Board  of  Instruc- 
tion and  School  Committee  of  the  Con- 
solidated City  District ;  his  vote  and  in- 
fluence were  ever  for  progress.  No  man 
did  more,  few  as  much  to  make  possible 
our  present  system  and  methods.  Our 
city  High  school,  our  graded  schools,  our 
superintendency,  may  all  be  traced  to  the 
period  of  Mr.  Stevens'  participation  in 


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school  government,  and  to  him  more 
than  to  any  other  is  due  their  existence 
at  this  time.  He  was  an  active  member 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1897. 

Mr.  Stevens  belongs  to  the  B.  P.  O.  E. 
and  is  a  member  and  clerk  of  the  Dover 
Sportsmen's  Association.  His  literary 
contributions  upon  this  subject  have  been 
extensive  and  have  won  for  him  among 
sportsmen  more  than  a  local  reputation 
as  an  author. 
He  has  a  very 
decided  liter- 
ary talent  and 
is  graphic  in 
his  descrip- 
tion of  places 
and  events; 
clear  and  co- 
gent in  the 
p  r  e  sentation 
of  his  views 
and  ideas, 
and  possessed 
of  a  keen, 
disc  riminat- 
ing  liter  ary 
taste  which 
enables  him 
to  add  grace 
and  beauty  to 
the  strength 
and  vigor  of 
his  writings. 

He  early 
foresaw  the 
value  and 
need  of  a  pure 
and  abundant 
water  supply. 
He  was  iden- 
tified with  the 
movement 

started  in  1887  in  this  direction  and 
grasped  the  project  in  all  its  details  at 
the  outset,  explaining  and  advocating 
the  wisdom  of  the  enterprise  and  ever 
using  his  influence  with  the  official  repre- 
sentatives of  the  citizens  to  enlist  their 
support  of  the  financial  measures  required 
in  the  carrying  on  of  the  work.  The 
many  resolutions,  orders  and  contracts 
passed  and  accepted  by  the  City  Council 
and  its  committees,  calling  for  large  ex- 


JOHN   B.  STEVENS. 


penditures  of  money,  were  drafted  or 
reviewed  by  him  with  such  fidelity  and 
skill  that  legal  entanglements  were  avoid- 
ed and  the  city  treasury  saved  from  re- 
visionary  measures  and  readjustments. 
The  city  of  Dover  owes  much  to  him  for 
this  successful  administration  of  the  com- 
plex duties  of  the  office  of  City  Clerk  and 
for  his  insistent  method  of  doing  things 
right.  His  present  position  on  the 
Water  Board 
fitly  recog- 
nizes his  abil- 
ity to  judge 
wisely,  steer 
safely  and  act 
promptly,  at 
all  times  in 
the  interest  of 
the  city  and 
for  the  pro- 
tection of  his 
fellow  citi- 
zens. 

Mr.  Ste- 
vens has  two 
sons  of  whom 
he  may  be 
justly  proud. 
Col.  Frank  B. 
the  elder, 
went  through 
the  Dover 
High  school 
and  Phjllips 
academy,  Ex- 
e  t  e  r  ,  and 
graduated 
from  Yale 
College, 
thence  enter- 
ing the  field 
of  journalism 

as  city  editor  of  the  Troy  (N.  Y.)  Tele- 
gram. Later  he  was  called  to  a  desk  in 
the  Boston  Globe  Office,  and  is  now  con- 
ducting a  successful  advertising  business 
of  his  own  in  Boston.  He  is  a  member 
of  Governor^Wolcott's  staff  with  the  rank 
of  Colonel.  Hermon  W.,  the  younger 
son,  attended  the  common  schools  of  Do- 
ver and  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  and 
then  became  a  Harvard  graduate,  finish- 
ing his  academic  training  at  Heidelberg 


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University.    He  is  now  a  writer  in  Boston. 


Harris  M.  Shaw. 


Harris  M.  Shaw  was  born  at  East  An- 
dover   in    1854.     He 
at  t  e  n  d  e  d  school  at 
Gor ham,  Me.,  and 
when  sixteen  years  of 
age  went  to  Boston  to 
learn    the   trade    of  a 
carpenter  and  builder. 
He  returned  to  Dover 
in  January,  1875,  an(i 
the    following    year 
formed  a   partnership 
with    William   Beetle, 
under     the     style    of 
Beede  and  Shaw.  Sub- 
sequently    Mr.     Pike 
was  admitted  a   part- 
ner and  the   firm  be- 
came Beede,  Shaw  and 
Pike.     This  firm  built 
the  Moulton  shoe  shop 
on   Sixth  street   for  a 
steam  mill  and  carpen- 
ter shop.     Mr.  Shaw  withdrew  from  the 
firm  in  1883  and  has  since  been  engaged 
in  general  contracting  and  building  at  16 
Hough    street,  and   from    his   advanced 
methods  and    the 
close  personal  at- 
tention   given    to 
all    contracts     he 
has    succeeded    in 
securing   some   of 
the    most    impor- 
tant building  con- 
tracts   for    private 
residences  in  -Do- 
ver  and    the   sur- 
rounding  towns. 
He  completed  the 
planning   and    re- 
modeling   of    the 
house   at  the  cor- 
ner   of    Hough 
street  and  Central 
avenue,  at  present 

occupied  by  Dr.  Blanchard,  but  a  short 
time  ago.  Only  skilled  workmen  are  em- 
ployed and  the  best  materials  used,  and 
all  work  entrusted  to  him  is  carried  out 


HARRIS  M.  SHAW. 


RESIDENCE  OF 


under  his  own  close  personal  supervision. 
Mr.  Shaw  also  attends  to  general  house 
repairing  and  contracts  for  every  class  of 
building  work.  His  figures  will  always 
be  found  reasonable,  being  based  upon 
the  fundamental  prin- 
ciple that  the  best 
workmanship  is  at  all 
times  the  cheapest. 

Theodore  W.   y= 
Woodman. 

Theodore  W.  Wood- 
man is  a  native  of 
Dover  and  has  become 
a  vital  part  of  the 
city's  life,  being  among 
its  most  substantial 
citizens.  He  is  a  son 
of  Samuel  Woodman, 
of  the  Durham  branch 
of  the  family,  and  Ly- 
dia  E.  (Rollins) 
Woodman,  daughter 
of  Captain  James  Rol- 
lins of  Somersvvorth. 
From  his  parents  he  inherited  habits  of 
industry  and  prudence  and  has  proved 
himself  to  be  abundantly  endowed  with 
those  sterling  qualities  which  constitute 
the  successful 
man.  Mr.  Wood- 
man has  always 
been  an  ardent 
believer  in  the 
value  of  real  es- 
tate and  no  one  in 
the  city  has  done 
more  towards  its 
development.  He 
has  for  many  years 
been  largely  inter- 
ested in  realty. 
In  1898  he  erec- 
ted the  imposing 
Woodman  block 
at  the  corner  of 
H.  M.  SHAW.  Central  avenue 

and     Hale    street 

and  has  been  instrumental  in  providing 
good  tenements  for  the  masses  at  low 
rentals.  At  the  present  time  over  one 
hundred  tenants  occupy  his  buildings  and 


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he  well  sustains  the  reputation  he  has  ac- 
quired of  being  a 
just     and     liberal 
landlord. 

During  the  civil 
war  Mr.  Wood- 
man occupied  a 
responsible  posi- 
t  i  o  n  with  the 
Freedman  Bureau, 
under  Gen.  O.  O. 
Howard  at  Wash- 
ington, and  had 
charge  of  a  large 
number  of  men. 
He  has  devoted 
much  of  his  time 
to  public  affairs, 
serving  in  various 
capacities  in  the 
interests  of  the 
city.  He  has  been 
selectman,  coun- 
cilman and  alder- 
man of  Ward  4, 
which  he  repre- 
sented in  the  Leg- 
islature for  four 
years.  His  entire 
legislative  career 


was  most  acceptable 


THEODORE  W.  WOODMAN. 


to  his  constituents 
who  frequently  ex- 
pressed their  ap- 
preciation of  his 
services.  Mr. 
Woodman  has  al- 
so served  on  the 
Board  of  Educa- 
tion, has  been 
President  of  the 
Board  of  Trade 
and  of  the  Bellamy 
club,  and  was  one 
of  the  incorpora- 
tors  and  is  now  a 
trustee  of  the 
Wentworth  Home 
for  the  Aged.  He 
was  also  chairman 
of  the  Building 
Committee  and  it 
is  largely  owing  to 
his  foresight  and 
clear  judgment 
that  this  elegant 
building  was  erec- 
ted at  such  a 
small  outlay.  He 
has  been  marked- 
ly succesbful  in 


WOODMAN   BLOCK. 


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business  and  while  still  in  the  prime  of 
life  has  acquired  a  competence.  He  owes 
his  entire  success  to  his  business  ability, 
application,  perseverance  and  singleness 
of  purpose.  He  is  a  man  cf  many  resources 
and  shows  what  can  be  accomplished  by 
enterprise,  coupled  wilh  integrity  and  fair 
dealing.  He  is  the  surviving  member  of 
his  branch  of  the  Woodman  family,  hi> 
brothers,  Charles  S.  and  James  R.,  and 
sister,  Lizzie  C.  having  deceased,  t 

Tasker  and  Chesley- 

There  is  probably  no  profession  in 
which  a  greater  delicacy  of  feeling  is  ne- 
cessitated than  in  that  of  the  funeral  di- 
rector. It  is  asserted  that  the  above  firm 
is  possessed  of  all  the  necessary  requisite  s 
to  successfully  carry  on  their  business  as 
funeral  directors  and  embalmers.  The 
firm  was  formed  July  i,  1897,  succeeding 
Mr.  A.  N.  Ward.  They  are  both  energetic 
young  men,  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
the  duties  of  their  profession,  and  possess 
a  courteous  demeanor.  Their  rooms,  lo- 
cated at  12-14  Third  street,  are  fully 
stocked  with  high  grade  goods  suitable  for 
occasions  where  bereavement  occurs, 


T.  T.  CHESLEY. 


H.  B.  TASKER. 

meeting  the  requirements  of  all  classes  of 
patrons.  They  furnish  everything  requi- 
site for  funerals,  are  prompt  in  meeting 
their  engagements  and  can  always  be  im- 
plicitly relied  upon  in  all  matters  relating 
to  interments.  They  make  a  specialty  of 
embalming  and  possess  the  necessary  nat- 
ural endowments,  as  well  as  the  technical 
knowledge  so  peculiarly  needful  in  this 
business.  Mr.  Tasker  was  born  at  New- 
market in  1870,  receiving  his  education  at 
the  public  schools.  Upon  leaving  school 
he  entered  the  undertaking  business  with 
his  father  and  gained  a  thorough  and 
practical  knowledge  of  it.  He  came  to 
Dover  in  1897  to  form  the  present  part- 
nership. He  is  a  member  of  Rising  Star 
Lodge,  No.  47,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  and  of 
Pioneer  Lodge,  No.  i,  K.  of  P.,  Newmar- 
ket. Mr.  Chesley  was  born  in  1869  at 
Hutchinson,  Minn.,  but  went  to  Newmar- 
ket at  the  age  of  twelve  years.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  at  the  New  Hampton  Literary  Insti- 
tute. He  was  Town  Treasurer  of  New- 
nmket  for  two  years  and  is  a  member  <  f 
Rising  Star  Lodge,  No.  47,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.  and  Pioneer  Lodge,  No.  i,  K.  of  P., 
Newmarket. 


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